#uh. 2009

[sadcabbages]

Chat. I think we might be cooked

[dykespirk]

right…right….right….

[gean-grey-blog]

What makes White Collar hold up so much better than other police procedurals:

It was part of the "pretty happy shows with gorgeous ensemble casts and a charismatic weird guy" USA network era but it somehow used that to be about stuff that is so REAL

What is justice? Is our system fair? Can you be a criminal and still be a good man? Can you be a good man and still work for the system?

The bad guys are rich assholes, and people defrauding families out of their homes, and unethical pharmaceutical companies. People manipulating energy supply out of greed resulting in blackouts which are showing *harming a dog,* aka how to show something is monstrous in a pg show written by a white person. Class exists in this universe in more ways than having a cardboard concept of a "rich guy."

The bad guys include police, FBI agents, prison staff, judges, senators. Those people cause real harm, obstruct justice, plant evidence, kill people. It's shown how the system protects them and harms regular people.

The harm that causes the main character to go from wanting to be part of the system, to subverting and working against it, is him finding out about an act of police corruption, brutality, and murder--and what's more, that if he became a cop, that's what he could become.

The harm that causes the main character to be outside the white picket fence is that the system failed his family after that act. What happened to Neal's mom? Why did nobody besides Helen step in? They had to check in with US Marshals, did nobody notice this kid didn't have an adult fit to parent?

So Neal turns to found family. And let's be real, heavily polyamory coded found family at that. But he keeps chasing the idea of a girl who will be everything. But he's got all this attachment trauma so he never does. But because found family is real family, even the people who freaking played the characters are still connected a decade later

[walmart-icarus]

Lets be honest, he would hate my dumbass

[krittec]

been replaying avatar frontiers of pandora so i can get to the DLCs and holy shit did I forget how much I hate Alma and the fact none of the humans take responsibility for any of their actions and try to make themselves on the same tier of betrayed as the na'vi kids

i stand firm that this game should've been an 18 so they could be less pussy about the intentions of the humans because how do you have a soft discussion about colonisation and expect the colonised to be like "aww it's okay mummy🫨”

not forgiving alma should have booted her from camp and removed her from the dics. why does such a decision have zero fucking impact and she STILL acts holier than thou afterwards.

this had potential to be such a great game with a good message but instead went soft for some fucking reason.

[casscainmainly]

op complaining about not curating your fandom experience to ignore racism while not curating their own fandom experience and ignoring people who enjoy canon 😭 although yeah not gonna ignore prevalent racism in fandom is a good thing I think

Yeah this!! Also I'm not sure if OP knows that fanon is nearly inescapable? So many canon fans won't even look through character tags anymore because it's flooded with fanon. OP also tagged Cass, Duke, and Steph, were they expecting Cass/Duke/Steph fans to prefer fanon to canon??

This is the last I'll say about this discourse for a while, but honestly it shouldn't even be fanon vs. canon. It should be fanon + canon fans vs. racism/sexism/ableism. There's nothing inherently harmful about fanon fans, some are great and engage with POC and women, but a lot don't. There's a difference between having comics-inaccurate headcanons, and actively perpetuating racist/ableist stereotypes and excluding women.

Frankly, 'just look away' is not an appropriate response to people calling out fandom prejudice. Fandom should be an inclusive space, but inclusivity means examining and interrogating our biases. Whether or not you like canon, whether you've only read WFA or have read 1000+ comics, this holds true for all of us. I know the conversation is old at this point, but honestly I'd prefer people complaining and being annoying one thousand times over people ignoring the problem.

[snowingclouds]

I haven't drawn anything since highschool, but I was able to snag a tablet off of fb market place, so that happened. So far I've been pushing out some simple doodles a day to get back into it.

[sebnameyourcar]

funny thing about working in sports journalism is that random sports channels are constantly on in the background so sometimes i’m just pottering away with my work and in the background i hear sebastian vettel radio highlights from chinese grand prix gone by. excellent job. 10/10

[wyvernest]

as an architecture student i love these so much

ALSO FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS MIGUEL!!!!!?‼️

[fortheloveofaussiegrit]

Mark supporting Jenson for the championship during the BBC's coverage of qualifying at the German GP 2009

[quietwingsinthesky]

i thinkj yyou soulwd really like cult of the lamb. good as game

i do like starting cults! don't take that out of context.

[you-have-made-a-fatal-error]

once upon a time, in about 2016, someone wrote HeR to find out where they sourced the images used to decorate Abby's room in MHM and were told that the art came from the Corel library.

this... was not true. obvs I don't think the HeR employee who answered that email was intentionally misleading/lying to this person, but it's bad info nevertheless. basically all the in game art from MHM/the early games came from the Mary Evans/Pictures Now collection, which I know because I've spent a buttload of time trying to id all the irl art used in the games.

so why bring up the Corel thing? because as it turns out that there is an ND game that almost exclusively* used art from Corel, but it's not MHM, or any of the early games. that game is in fact Warnings at Waverly Academy. seriously. easiest time I've ever had tracking down in-game art. (the corel art collection is waaay smaller than the mary evans/pictures now collection. like two orders of magnitude smaller. like 500 images vs 60,000 images. you get the picture.)

*and by almost exclusively I mean there is seriously one painting in wac that isn't on any of the corel art disks. and that painting? pictures now collection. why? why not any of the 450+ corel paintings that didn't make it into wac? the mind boggles.

[aq2003]

rewatching ben whishaw's richard ii and yea i think the biggest difference between his and the rsc version is that he plays richard's flippancy/disregard for other people's lives completely straight and in a kind of sinister way while david plays it for humor

[nyrrwrites]

So …. The fic between Jake, reader, and Neytiri is done and may be dropped tonight. It is incredibly long — any last takes to be tagged ?

Brief summary as to what it is about

Update : link to the story :

[chainmail-xxmatt]

favorite operating system question mark

Am most familiar with Linux kernel. They provide the most options 4 me. Currently using Linux 2.6.29. I do tend to like to have as many options as possible 2 b able to do wtvr I want. ＼＼\\٩( 'ω' )و //／／

[just-a-little-unionoid]

y'all gay people in my phone aren't obsessed enough with The Visitor From the Future and it displeases me :(