#procedural rules

[lexlawuk]

Case Study: Bankruptcy Order Annulment Victory Following HMRC's Defective Service

We’ve achieved a significant victory for our client, by successfully annulling a bankruptcy order that was made against him. This was due to a critical failure by His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to properly serve notice of a hearing date. This triumph underscores our expertise in navigating complex bankruptcy rules and procedures. It highlights our commitment to protecting our clients’…

[inamindfarfaraway]

The Pixies need to be villains in A New Wish just so that Hazel, canonical lover of paperwork and the predictable monotony of places it is done like the DMV (*cough*, autism, *cough*), can have so much fun with them that it makes them have a breakdown because they're not meant to be fun! They're meant to be boredom incarnate! They rob kids of joy, they don't give it to them! Who is this child? What is going on here?

[chamerionwrites]

Now and then I have a little giggle when I recall that JJ Abrams made Rey Palpatine's grandkid via some sort of nonsensical cloning plot. It's not the worst thing in the ST but I do think it's emblematic of why it's bad. Signifier without substance. Derivative *and* gutless. Tried to rip off ESB without understanding how the Vader reveal works as a narrative beat, gave Sheev spawn, and didn't even have enough courage of their convictions to admit that he fucks.

Like we all know Vader spent two decades pining gloomily after Padmé. But Palpatine? Sheev Palpatine? The guy whose two modes are smiling smug self-satisfied secret smiles to himself and crowing POWER, UNLIMITED POWER? The guy who cackles with maniacal relish anytime he gets to let his hair down and have a lightsaber fight? That guy is a hedonist. Tell me I'm wrong. That man is at all times enjoying the hell out of being irredeemably evil. He is a literal emperor, the vastly powerful and mostly unchallenged ruler of the galaxy, reveling in a victory he spent many years plotting and scheming for. And they had to invent some half-assed narrative afterthought of a cloning program rather than simply allowing us to assume that at some point in the two+ decades between ROTS and ROTJ, that man got laid? The cowardice. The incompetence. The sheer commitment to taking every conceivable L

[avoicefromthestars]

this woman's small child six months later: mother i'm obsessed with her. i just gotta follow her around everywhere from now on. sam wildman: uh. okay. we will... have her over for dinner. i guess.

[sprnklersplashes]

"this character wouldn't say that about their sexuality-"

maybe he would if he was written by a young queer person exploring their identity via fanfiction. just an idea.

[stoicmike]

Having to do all the things you are supposed to do when you have a job is just too ridiculous! -- Michael Lipsey

[mrakyvkafi]

I’ve seen more than my fair share of war. Sometimes the worst part about losing a battle isn’t the losing. It’s the surviving that comes after. I put off having a real funeral for them. I put off selling that house. I put off moving on. And that morning, I couldn’t find the strength to pack a thing. But I didn’t leave empty-handed, either. My wife believed we all should have a code to live by, a set of rules. And I believed in her. So, for years, I wrote my own rules down on napkins, scraps of paper. I followed all of them to the letter. And there I was, thinking, “Look where it got me.” The rules gave my life order. But now, without Shannon and Kelly… there was no order. There was only surviving. Franks knew there was a time and a place to bend the rules. And my dad… well, in his own way, he knew that, too. He knew more than I ever gave him credit for. In a lot of ways, he knew me better than I ever knew myself. I wish I could go back and tell him that. I wish I could go back and thank him. He knew that without any rules at all, a man has nothing left to hold on to.

NCIS: Origins (2024), S01E03 Bend, Don't Break

[namira]

I have so much animosity towards whoever made 'gut health' trendy, so much you can scarcely comprehend. Like as a proud IBS warrior I am just like always going to be prone to stomach issues and thus always going to have people giving unsolicited advice about it but like literally every "gut health" tip makes it infinitely worse and when you are like 'actual medical professionals have advised me to limit my fiber intake' they will not accept it.

[anxietywriter]

Dialogue Prompt #123 || Weekly

"You can't do that. It's not procedure."

"I don't intend to follow procedure."

[yj-98]

my name is tim drake and i have one job to do in this world. my only job is to breathe twice into darla aquistas mouth for every fifteen times i compress her chest. back and forth. over and over. fifteen chest compressions, followed by two breaths, followed by another fifteen chest compressions. --eleven-twelve-thirteen-fourteen-fifteen-- --and breathe. breathe. one-two-three-four-five-- never stopping, no matter how tired i get, because you dont give up until relieved by qualified medical help. thats the rule. and i know that qualified medical help isnt coming. not anytime soon. maybe not at all.

[cepn]

i can't tell anymore what i want my shepard to be morality-wise like okay umm uhh... should she be very nice, slightly fucked up and evil, or moderately fucked up and evil

[adarkermiserablecrow]

Not to be overly pessimistic, but maybe 911 is destined to become one of those shows that had a great start, then had a couple off seasons, then had a string of bad seasons riddled with problems and eventually ended in some haphazard way that left fans bitter and disappointed

[mayadoesfandomstuff]

I was just thinking of this, but I'm not really too upset that some Persona characters ended up as cops given that it makes sense for their story and they probably still have a positive view of the police force and any negativity is focused on individual bad actors and any bad group of cops is treated like an anomaly or just based on pure ignorance. Like okay, sure it makes sense for Tatsuya because he wants to be like his brother who's a good detective and it makes sense for Akihiko because the cop he had interacted with were somewhat positive in his life, and for Chie, the bad cop she's met is somewhat relegated as an anomaly in the system and even then was willing to just admit fault even without genuine remorse.

I don't have to agree with it personally to see why it makes sense for their character to head down that path (although I could headcanon they could leave the force after a while or something). I don't have to be happy with it because of my personal politics to understand why it would make sense.

I do, however, still think that how they handled Makoto wanting to be a cop was really really bad.

Compared to other characters, Makoto's motivation with being a cop seems to be with the reverse context of other characters wherein there are individual good cops and small good groups in a rotten system that is difficult to reform. Time and time again, this is proven within Persona 5 and its spin-offs. Her friends are constantly threatened by the government and by extension the police force with only one good cop that actually helps them and even then, Zenkichi, specifically tells her that she should reconsider joining the force because it's such a rotten system.

She knows what they're capable of, she knows how badly her friend was tortured by them, and she knows that so many of them are kiss asses who had constantly blamed minors for crimes they didn't commit because it's convenient for them and politicians and corporations told them to do so.

Her shrugging off these concerns is what makes it so uncomfortable. Her friends constantly say they don't trust the police, one of her friends had been beaten up by them, and she still touts about that she's not changing her mind about being a cop. I know everyone says that it's because her dad is a good cop and she wants to be like him but she only says this maybe in her social link and tangentially brings this up in a conversation with Zenkichi where she doesn't even imply that she understands the the police force is corrupt and just focuses on the specific good cop that she had in her life which is her father.

I'm not even saying that it's impossible to write Makoto as someone who wants to be a cop because her father was a good cop and there are still good cops within the force. Just simply make it that every time that she's asked about this and why she would do this, she tells them that she wants to be the one to "change the system" or "reform the police force" and her insistence in being a police officer wouldn't come off as off-putting as it is in the series. Like genuinely, her just stating it plainly is enough for me to think "Okay, I don't think she could do it and I don't really think this is something I'm happy with but I understand why the character would go that direction."

Instead, it's all possible inference and you really have to extrapolate to get to that conclusion because she never really says anything too directly about how corrupt the police force is or how the bad ones give the good ones a bad name so she just sounds like she's defending the very same police force that tortured her friend and blamed her and the rest of them for crimes they didn't commit despite all of them being minors. It's absurd.

[bismuthbookshelf]

Story concept: A character who has like superpowers or certain "non-human features" (like idk horns or wings or certain animal abilities) that they try to keep hidden because they don't want to be tested on by scientists, except they somehow eventually wind up in a scientific facility...and it's kinda nice actually.

Like you ever heard about how sometimes animals (especially small/medium land mammals) that are (temporarily) caught in animal traps for statistical samples/population studies may have a high rate of recapture? Because they get food and a comfy and secure place to sleep for the night? Yeah, there is no way that any half-decent scientist wouldn't treat a scientifically-fascinating individual with the utmost care and respect, 1 because there are in fact really strict ethics rules about working with certain animals (especially vertebrates), and 2 because individuals that are healthy and content make for better test results!

So yeah imagine a character who's worried about being seen as a "freak", or some sort of circus exhibit, who now has enough money to pay their bills (scientific funding!). Now they eat a healthier, more balanced diet, their sleep schedule gets fixed, and they get to learn more about themselves along the way

[skin-slave]

[echidnana]

every interaction we have had with the american healthcare system has been nauseatingly evil