#Decades Later

[ausetkmt]

A racist accusation, a botched investigation. Then, decades later, an apology in Boston.

The mayor of Boston formally apologized to two Black men who were wrongfully accused of murdering a pregnant white woman and her unborn child in 1989 – a notorious murder case that sowed decades of distrust between the Boston Police Department and the city's Black community.

"I am so sorry for what you endured," Michelle Wu said in an apology addressed to Willie Bennett and Alan Swanson, at a news conference on Wednesday. "I am so sorry for the pain that you have carried for so many years. What was done to you was unjust, unfair, racist and wrong."

In 1989, Swanson and Bennett were named as suspects in the death of Carol Stuart, whose husband, Charles Stuart, plotted her killing and then accused an unidentified Black man for the murder, sparking what the mayor called a "systemic campaign targeting Black men" based on "a false, racist claim."

Michael Cox, the Boston police commissioner, apologized on behalf of the police department for "the poor investigation, overzealous behavior and, more likely, unconstitutional behavior."

Flanking the speakers were Swanson and members of Bennett's family. The mayor handed them formal apology letters and said the gesture was "just the beginning of a much longer journey of accountability and action."

#boston #bpd #A racist accusation #a botched investigation. Then #decades later #an apology in Boston. #Willie Bennett #Alan Swanson #wrongful imprisonment #false claims #racism #Youtube

[hyba]

Happy STS! What's a story or idea that's been living in your phone notes/voice memos/sticky notes posted around your computer for years that you hope to write one day?

Hello from the far future! 😅

Another way of saying I've been gone for a while... but I hope you don't mind! Thank you for your Q!

I would say that there's one story that has been rattling around in my head for a while but haven't gotten around to writing it yet. It's a family drama with magical realism elements...

It chronicles the lives of the members of a family which begins as a closely knit unit, only to be slowly wedged apart by issues that were really always there but ignored. You can only ignore some things for so long...

#sts #decades later #writeblr #writing #writers

[chronal-anomaly]

The way that Lena accepts the mantle of Storyteller even if it's the opposite of everything she ever wanted. In a way, you could see it was the elephant, the black dog haunting her waking moments, the looming, lurking knowledge that there will be a day where her friends and family are dead and gone and she's there, telling their stories to people who have long forgotten their names. If only to remind herself. If only to remind the world...

#( headcanon. ) #lexi and i had this whole plot where Lena was the only one to remember olivia colomar #even tried ( and mostly succeeded ) at making her a dia de los muertos ofrenda every year #( The food was always a Little Too British but she tried ) #she was destined to burn up like a supernova and here she is #decades later #still looking 25 ( but maybe a little slower ) #murmering stories about her friends who have moved on #they say you die twice - once when your body dies #and then again when someone says your name for the last time. #lena won't let them die again #cowboy beepbop is once again flooding me with muse right when im trying to sleep

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

The Inspector should be aware — twice over — of what it’s like to be the last of his species, given that he believed he’d destroyed Kayaclasch with the Time Wave, only for the Sergeant to actually do it decades later.

So, when Shoop the Boop claimed to be the last of his kind, the Inspector should be a bit suspicious of him.

#Inspector Spacetime #60th Anniversary Specials #60th Anniversary Specials recap #the Inspector (character) #should be aware #twice over #Last of His Kind (trope) #Last of His Kind #what it's like to be #the last of his species #he believed he'd destroyed #Kayaclasch #Time Wave #the Sergeant (character) #actually did it #decades later #Shoop the Boop (character) #the Inspector should have been suspicious of him #suspicious by nature

[comedy--pink]

being in henry's shoes must be so detrimental

like imagine you have this friend and you start this business with him to run a restaurant made to entertain kids and their families. and then, in the blink of an eye, your friend became a child murder. almost with seemingly no reason.

#eventually you didn't want to associate yourself with the franchise you two tried to built so you tried to put an end to it #DECADES later #but at what cost #txt #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #henry emily #william afton #i kinda thought about this some time ago and it kinda latched on #god

[tobykurtzz]

Corners of the Telesto Yuan khilāfah are a paradise while other areas are engulfed in war. When Clans go to war the consequences can be brutal. A trade dispute between two clans lead to a massacre on the planet Periniea. Bombers destroyed the capital and cut a swath of destruction across the temporal zone of the planet. The Golden Hand stepped out of the shadows to mediate the settlement of the conflict, highly favoring the tattered Amorishi Clan over the militarily strong Khinhtanya Clan. The Amorishis were allowed to evacuate many of their people off planet before the Khinhtanya took the mineral rich northern hemisphere for themselves. Surprisingly the leadership of the Khinhtanya slowly began dying off on their newly conquered planet. Accidents, natural causes, and murder claimed the Khinhtanya leadership until a young second-cousin fell into the line of succession. A newly appointed guardian, rumored to be blessed by Imperador Abraham Amal Medeshah himself, stepped in to advise and education the young clan leader. This guardian, Khlyon of Cheroseia, set a new course for the Khinhtanya clan who, decades later, healed the rift with the Amorishis by returning Periniea and absorbing the remnants of the tattered Clan as an elevated tribute-clan within the Khinhtanya family. #sciencefiction #scifi #midjourney #aiartwork #AICreated #dailyart

#Corners of the Telesto Yuan khilāfah are a paradise while other areas are engulfed in war. When Clans go to war the consequences can be brut #highly favoring the tattered Amorishi Clan over the militarily strong Khinhtanya Clan. The Amorishis were allowed to evacuate many of their #natural causes #and murder claimed the Khinhtanya leadership until a young second-cousin fell into the line of succession. A newly appointed guardian #rumored to be blessed by Imperador Abraham Amal Medeshah himself #stepped in to advise and education the young clan leader. This guardian #Khlyon of Cheroseia #set a new course for the Khinhtanya clan who #decades later #healed the rift with the Amorishis by returning Periniea and absorbing the remnants of the tattered Clan as an elevated tribute-clan within

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

got a worm nibbling my brain. can someone help me find a piece of obscure media?

webcomic/indie comic from the 2010s. basically a sci-fi short story about a young girl (with red hair?) who was being raised by scientists as part of an experiment. she receives a haircut/has her head shaved, in preparation for her annual brain scan/testing. it is revealed that while her body is human, her "brain" is artificial, made of computer implants throughout her skull and spine. at some point her biological mother (also a scientist on the same campus?) encounters her and is repulsed, viewing her as a machine who has murdered her daughter.

it was very poignant and it bruised my heart and i can NOT find it anywhere

#i thought it was made by the creator of 'O Human Star' for some reason but apparently not? #goddammit goddammit goddammit #'i don't have to write down the title of this piece of media i encountered in my formative years bc i'll always remember it' #*cut to ten years later frantic googling* #fun fact 'a.i.' is now a completely useless search term #google in general is useless #and stuff i read 3+ years ago regularly vanishes from the internet #bookmarks are not enough! if you like indie media--download that shit! buy digital/physical copies while you can #save it to the cloud back it up and organize that shit!!! #keep a list of the stuff you read (organized by date/media type and possibly with keywords if you want it to be useful longterm) #(or a spreadsheet even if you're like me and rabidly consume short stories/comics like a pack of amnesiac piranhas on a feeding frenzy) #(that stuff PILES UP over the years ok. if you wanna make sure you'll be able to find it again a decade later--curation is key) #because art WILL touch your soul and then vanish into the void leaving naught but a 404 Error in its wake #i am an old man shaking my fist at the kids on my lawn but the kids on my lawn are me and my longterm digital planning skills circa 2012

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Lackadaisy Enrichment

#in our enclosures!! #video linked as source; which i'm glad to see already has a million views and is trending. That's Right #lackadaisy #WHICH i have been reading since at least '07 when i was thirteen my god b/c this animation is based on the ongoing webcomic #like does its influence show up Directly in some Discrete way i can point to in my art? not very easily probably. And Yet. #the inspiration....i wasn't able to be Regularly Only for at least another year / art done Nonprofessionally Online was novel to me #like wow ppl can make & post fanart of w/e they love huh....didn't know webcomics were a thing & i never really read that many since but. #good god the quality of Lackadaisy at its onset is like this is superb?? this person putting in all their talent and effort??? #and Then you get years & years more art and i don't even know what superlatives to throw out abt its quality as it evolves. obsessed w/it.. #if i see a new lackadaisy comic page i Will be acting out. obviously this animation is a delight & also stunning. and fascinating to also #juxtapose as a Translation / Interpretation of the comic in a different medium & standalone snippet of Story #and that we're not even quite there in the comic timeline; Taking Notes abt character info we get distilledly here....genuinely love like #take it back to '07 i'm like oh boy can't wait for the dream team to assemble. then a decade later when it did? Oh Boy. that is payoff lol #namely hooray for stitches and mudbug at the field office for every passing gangster. killing one marigold associate but not the other #which seems like a promising start to shootouts w/the other dream team triumvirate. i adore that in canon so far mordecai freckle & rocky #have met but only over a nice brunch. re: all intentions anyways. anyways i'm like Gifs Must Be Made while i'm also so riled afresh abt the #comic that i've been sooo hype for for over fifteen yrs now babeyyy Deservedly. i've done a couple of rereads & ought to do another.... #For Interest it'd probably take a few sittings to catch up from the start but there is much to be engaged over....this ongoing story that's #historical fiction prohibition bootlegging cats with plenty of focus on characters & several Mysteries. which i'm better at parsing now lol #like one of the more recent rereads like Oh Of Course x (probably) accidentally killed his y & z took the fall & that's a binding secret... #Not [oh of course] abt the circumstances surrounding a's death & how b & c were involved. nor the ''what's marigold's damage'' mystery #which is great. love to not know things. love that we can readily follow all the emergent drama everyone's wading in nowadays. hell yeah #anyways admire my organized approach to gifs here. four shots each Expressions Atmosphere Action Groupshots #sure might've muddled through gifmaking for this anyways but fr being a huge lackadaisy comic enjoyer for now most of my life helps #and its very Overall Inspiration like. just really getting the [you can really just draw stuff out here] going. fr the art's detail & skill #and that enrichment like i'm gonna have a great time following this. And I Have #you don't expect a crowdfunded indie animation in the mix back then but hell yeah fellas #SIGH ok removing a 4th gif that's broken / not displayed despite reuploading then entirely remaking it. if it's a bug i'll try again later

[canisalbus]

About that one ask where Machete murders everyone. I'm in my fire phase at the moment and thought blue would look good in contrast to Machete's usual red :)

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#wwwwhhhh oh boy #there he goes #can't decide whether I should feel bad for him destroying everything he's worked so hard for or happy to see him finally unleash #decades worth of resentment and bad energy #when I first saw this it was around noon I think and I had my brightness turned way down so I didn't see the text on the background #and pretty much lost it when I took a better look at it later #the lighting though! I love how vibrant blue the flames are and how they contrast against the red background #excellent unhinged villain cackle A+ #thank you! #gift art #lavenkel #own characters #Machete #(don't) let him cook

[ashleyloob]

I remember a really bizarre exchange I had on my old Tumblr back in 2015 where I argued with an anon over asks bc I wanted to eat less sugar in my diet so that I'd have less painful acne breakouts. and they took it SUPER personally for whatever reason and I specifically remember a banger line where they said something along the lines of "if you're gonna be the fucking sugar police then im becoming a sugar terrorist" and I still don't know what it means today

#ik this sounds like a fake tumblr story but bruh mid 2010s teenagers were SOMETHING ELSE #anyways this shit is part of why i quit Tumblr and didnt come back till half a decade later #btw cutting sugar really did improve my acne i have fantastic skin now 👍

[miusato]

Yeah but what if they're some oddly high budget cartoon from the 00s???

#atlus adds gradients to the animation to launder money kind of budget i mean lol #something like an angsty teenage drama cartoon that gets cancelled after 1 season and the ending was a cliffhanger #only for it to gain notoriety in the late 10s and fans begged them to bring them back #and then season 2 came out decades later and Shinji and Minako are dating for like 5 eps only to break up #like thats outrageous there's no such things as that kind of series happening ahaha #anyway this is like a reference for me i figure out how to draw them to fit my style more #now I have to figure out Aki and the rest of the gang lol #and then in 10 months you will see me recreating my fav scenes as if they aired on cartoon network or something lol #asukart #persona 3 #persona 3 reload #shinjiro aragaki #kotone shiomi #minako arisato #shinjiham #foolmoon #persona 3 portable #persona 3 femc

[officerdougeiffel]

can't wait for Iron lung to be released so I can go see it in cinemas knowing fully well the director of the film has drank piss multiple times and ranked like 900 pokemon on their sexiness

#i will. harrass everyone who talks to me about it with useless markiplier information #ive been watching this man for a decade i will explode sooner or later #markiplier #iron lung

[nausikaaa]

i really wish i had the motivation to write rn, because i have an idea for a post-canon Dracula fic where the characters have to deal with world war one. like, how do you even cope with thinking you saved all those lives, only for the entire western world to go to absolute shit just 20-ish years later? if only Bram Stoker had known what was coming.

anyway, i find it so interesting to consider what certain characters would do in that situation.

depending on when he was born, Quincey Jr could be just old enough to enlist or get drafted. or honestly, he might just want to be a hero like his parents, and lie about his age. and let's be real, that boy has some latent vampire powers that would give him an edge.

Jonathan has good survival instincts, an ear for languages, and the ability and willingness to scale sheer walls with a knife between his teeth if necessary. Mina has a really impressive memory for conversations and schedules, a love of technology, experience resisting what is essentially supernatural interrogation, and probably some vampire side effects of her own. both of them know shorthand and have plenty of experience with life or death situations. they would kick ass as spies and wireless operators.

Jack and Van Helsing would have to cease the medical malpractice to be actual army doctors. maybe learn about shell shock and call up Jonathan about that old "brain fever" diagnosis of his.

and what would Arthur even do? what did lords do during WW1? try to keep his friends out of harm's way? use his seat in government to try and end the war? grapple with the fact that lordships are falling out of favour and the world is moving on into a modern era without him?

i just find it fun to ponder.

#let's not even touch my idea for a crossover with war of the worlds #because those are set in the same decade #imagine: you defeat dracula and 6 months later england is invaded by blood drinking aliens #'goddamnit. here we go again.' #except crucifixes and communion wafers won't protect you this time #dracula #dracula daily #re: dracula

[thelotusflowers]

in the hunger game renaissance era and beyond shocked that the love triangle was even a thing with how obvious it is that katniss loves peeta. literally in thg, katniss says the only person she is certain that she loves in the world is prim after talking with gale. in mj, she says she turns to haymitch for comfort because he is the person that loves peeta too.

#Everlark #I could talk about them forever #I love them even more now a decade later as an adult ;-; #and the significance of their relationship #literally without them there would have been no revolution ;——;

[blorbocedes]

THEE lesbian situationship with your best friend break up that led to Geri leaving the Spice Girls: a know your sapphic herstory primer

a chronicle of the breakup of the spice girls, where geri left the group after being in love and breaking up with Mel B... who she used to be the closest with and go on trips together and here describing their relationship:

Geri's mom telling her her drunk at home when it's Mel B's wedding... phhhhh

if i think about the girlhood dynamic manifesting in their reunion tour as grown women 😳😵‍💫😵‍💫

Mel B revealing on Piers Morgan in 2019 she did in fact fuck Geri, tries to back it off as drunken gal pals -- geri's complete image rebrand as posh Wife And Mother who only wears white and rubs shoulders with the british elite and powerful... and downplaying everything that happpened

geri in very girlboss pantsuit shows around mel the f1 paddock and her new posho husband, redbull racing team principal and CEO. that grip on her waist tho 😵‍💫

most telling that they're exes, mel b being the only spice girl who wasn't at Geri's huge birthday bash.

#the quotes kinda got me 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 #cause yeah I knew they hooked up but . uh yeah. It was real #geri halliwell #Melanie B #spice girls #mel b #ginger spice #scary spice #no 1d reveal can ever be yeah there were gays in spice girls and they broke up bc of it and then got back together 2 decades later cause $$ #mel b/geri

[violet-thunder]

I’ve been a part of IRL queer and trans communities for almost 15 years, and I’ve watched every single one those remorselessly communities chew up and spit out transfems. None of them ever having been able to keep a transfem around for more than a year without getting a “bad vibe.” They’ve all kicked people with no other safety net to the curb, completely cutting them off from any of the benefits of an accepting community. Every transfem I know is either dead or living in poverty with no lifeline besides, perhaps, an extremely unhealthy tgirl skyrim house. Trans guys are just as quick to engage in this type of behavior as cis people! It’s like. Insane to me that I’m getting called delusional over this, I’ve watched this exact thing play out dozens of times. It’s happened to me and every transfem I’ve ever known IRL multiple times. Like. Everyone knows about the tranny hovels. Where do you think that comes from if not from the community widely excluding and discriminating against us? That’s not a situation that happens unless you have literally no where else to go. How do you think we would end up in such uniquely precarious situations if there were not power to leverage over us?

#Like yeah some of my posts about this have been a little emotional #but I have a lot of lived experiences to back this up #and then I go and read books from the 80s about transfem disposability #and find that the exact same thing was happening decades ago too #and despite all that! #I still have hope we will eventually be able to see that excluding our own is bad for all of us #because to be clear here the side that insists this is lateral aggression is the exclusionary side