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Me: I wish to spend an extended time rubbing my fingers over some small patch of pleasantly-textured surface. Perhaps the fur of an animal?

The miniaturized apex predator with which I share my home: [vibrates at a soothing frequency to encourage this behavior]

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sometimes i stop and look at the people who committed these crimes and i get really sad because some of them were just good people with average capabilities from the start to have a good, normal life

but something came along and made them into a monster and took away their chances of being a good person

they’re responsible for throwing that away and ruining lives

but i read up on who these people were before and it reminds me that the people they killed were not only victims (even though they’re far more important)

so were the people that could have grown into wonderful, contributing members of society that these murderers had in themselves but selfishly decided to throw away and take other people down with them and it’s barbaric and depressing

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On the Columbine Episode of the “Active Shooter” Documentary Series

Browsing channels last night and just happened to stumble upon the last half of this episode, I re-watched the whole way through during a different airing tonight. It’s always so damn refreshing to come across documentaries focused on, or including Columbine that aren’t over-dramatized or over-simplified, even if basically A L L O F T H E M nowadays lend far too much time to the deluded ramblings of our dear Mr. Cullen. Fortunately this one also featured very powerful, new interviews with Tom Mauser, Patrick Ireland, Kate Battan, and Coni Sanders. Can’t say it was too disappointing that the analysis on E&D was pretty shallow as always-- In all fairness, this doc and the series itself is more concerned with the events themselves and the effects it had on the national consciousness. 

What little part they lent to the “psychologies” at play was of course mostly wasted on Cullen’s interpretations--Plenty of the typical “psychopath this” and “follower that” bs. I was pleasantly surprised that they followed up Cullen’s comments immediately with Kate Battan’s take (the lead investigator) that she considered Eric a Type A, and Dylan more of a Type B, but that didn’t mean he “followed along like a little puppy dog”. Fucking finally some SMIDGE of a differing perspective from someone credible, holy shit. 

This doc seemed really well produced, the visuals and interviews stirred up a loooooot of old emotions for me and the discussion at the end regarding columbine viewed then-and-now and through the lens of our current massacre-epidemic was poignant, and a needed reminder of why it’s still relevant. So far it looks like it’s only on Showtime, but for those wondering how to watch, on Showtime’s site you can sign up for a free trial of their streaming service and watch through that, I’d assume.  ~*~In the meantime, I’ll be gradually melting until the Gods of Journalism allow me respite from this Cullenhell~*~

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when youve spent too long on a drawing and it looks terrible

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Symbiosis, Dan McCarthy

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People who aren’t part of the tcc see crime and murder as just that: crime and murder. They don’t allow themselves to understand and pick apart serial killers and their personalities/ motives/ upbringing or to understand the years leading up to a school shooting and all the history tied in with that. I get that an outsider of this community would see it as a ‘weird obsession’ that obviously means that we’re all going to be serial killers in the future. But it’s really not like that. It’s educational, it makes you think about perspectives. Crime is a part of history, so why can’t I be interested in it? Idk man, it’s just pissing me off.

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Plague, Dance of the Rats, 17th century