#bad cop worse cop

[batbabydamian]

a future Stephanie and Damian!

Batgirl (2009) #7 lol

lil future design inspos: Future State Steph design by Dan Mora, and Damian’s painted nails panel from Batman Beyond (2016) #45

#stephanie brown #damian wayne #bad cop worse cop #Damian still wears oversized sweaters bc he’s used to being small #batbabyart

[misosuper]

these two are responsible for at least half of Dick's gray hairs during his Batman tenure

#batgirl #batgirl 2009 #robin #stephanie brown #damian wayne #dc #into the soup #bad cop worse cop

[armed-with-a-waffle-iron]

Canonically, Stephanie Brown listens to Metallica. Can you imagine Steph turning Damian into a fellow metalhead?

Up to no good as per usual.

Let's hope Dick has got earplugs in his utility belt.

Let the Bats be weird pls.

#stephanie brown the metalhead #stephanie brown #she's a rock chick your honor #batgirl #bad cop worse cop #metallica #damian wayne #dick grayson #robin #batman and robin #the spoiler #robins #batgirl 2009 #bryan q miller #dc comics #comics #batfam #bat family #batman #metal #heavy metal #rock music #nightwing #metalhead #metal music

[nofilternobrake]

(fic) The Christmas Killer - Bon Cop Bad Cop

The Christmas Killer | Bon Cop Bad Cop

Ship(s): Martin Ward/David Bouchard, Martin Ward/Suzie Bouchard, David Bouchard/Suzie Bouchard

Rating: Mature

Chapters: 18

Word Count: 21,968

Status: Completed

In which David Bouchard discovers that Martin Ward has more secrets than a garden, they save Christmas from a distinctly heretical psychopath (mon Dieu!), and somehow manage to fit in some totally not awkward at all polyamory in between.

Joyeux Noël, everyone.

Teaser:

"Move in with me," David repeated. "Er… us." He fiddled with one of his earlobes, shuffling his feet and nodding to himself, then nervously lapsed into French, "Me and Suzie. Upstairs. Gabrielle got a place with Cousin Itt, said she needed some independence and I said it was paying rent for no good reason when she is hardly home at all with her shifts and what were we supposed to do, put out an ad on the internet and have some rando making moonshine in the closet and making videos on the uhhhh what is it called?" "What's what called?" Martin replied mildly in French, watching David chew fixated on his own thumb like a toddler. "The you know," David snapped his head up and nodded when he located what was on the tip of his tongue, enunciating carefully in English, "OnlyFriends." "Fans," his erstwhile partner shook his head, "It's OnlyFans. And you and I both know that amateur fermentation and consensual sex work are both legal in our country and perfectly legitimate life choices."

#fanfic (kirifuda) #bon cop bad cop #martin ward #david bouchard #bad cop worse cop

[bruciemilf]

Somebody tell me if this is a bad take, or if my love for Bruce is causing my objective brain to glitch, but-- something about advertising Batman, a hero who's very popular for being good with children, for being NURTURING with children, a bad father kinda defeats the whole purpose of what he's supposed to represent.

Batman is a protector; He protects people the world (and especially law enforcement) does not care about. That's literally the point of him.

Something about marketing " you can be incredibly violent to people you care about! And Its fine, because you care about them even if you abuse them, and that's what matters!" towards people, but especially men and young boys, is REALLY fucked up to me.

#it's not really 'wahhh think of the children' because the media you consume isn't a vessel of your character #but. gotham war is so incredibly shallow to me for pulling the 'no no its another personality bruce would never!' like. thats worse. #you get thats worse right? #because 1) dc loves demoninsing DID for some reason but it doesn’t add any substantial weight because bruce will be associated with #the actions of his 'alter' anyway. and dc knew that. 2) if you truly cannot write an interesting comic book where bruce is not abusive #and the batkids aren't being abused. you failed. #this isn't a reprouch or an attack to people who prefer that format. but the creator isn't doing it as genuine exploration of dark tropes #if that's the case -- dont cop out with the personality thing. let him be a bad dad. but its kinda fucked how dc STILL try to paint him #as a good person while doing so. its the collen hoover effect. 'we know the guy is an abuser. thats not the problem. the problem #is that the author wants us to pretend thats a good thing.' #bruce wayne #dc comics #dc #batman #text post #dc critical

[vaguely-concerned]

it's so crushing to me that M--, in the middle of the nuclear escalation insanity, told john through the closed door of his bedroom that she knows this isn't what he really wants, that they can still fix this together, that everything can still be all right if they just stop now. both she and A-- believed in john's goodness as a man, as a person, not even as a god or a leader, so much that they came up with the crazy 'arming the bomb' plan with him because they thought he would never actually do it. (they've got a recurring problem with judgement of character I suppose lol oopsie we enabled a genocidal monster sorry folks won't happen ag-- ah shit). C-- tells him he doesn't have to do this. the rest of his little found family, they all tell him this has gone too far, walk it back while we still can holy shit john!!! and he hides in his room because people are mad at him like a kid, but like a middle-aged kid with a doctorate who won't take his finger off the one Biggest Reddest Button to end them all.

then, so many years later, cytherea says at the dawn of lyctorhood: we had the choice to stop.

and then. THEN augustine tells him, at the end of everything, "john, we still have the choice to stop, even now. you don't have to do this anymore. even if there can be no forgiveness for what we've done, we can at the very least stop doing it." without either of them knowing it he's closing the loop of what M-- said ten thousand years ago -- they're both begging him 'be the man I want you to be, not the man you apparently are'. and he still doesn't listen.

what is this whole fucking mess if not a tragic ten thousand year demonstration of the unfortunate fact that no matter what you do, you can't change someone through sheer force of loving them 😔

I just... godDAMN IT john if you had listened to the people who loved you ONCE! ONCE, at ANY of these points, instead of sunk cost fallacy-ing yourself into the fucking lightless depths of the mariana trench while getting high on your own supply and drowning the universe in blood, everything could have been so different. my head is in my hands my heart is in pieces on the ground my bones are trying to shake their way out of my body --

#(I'm rereading/relistening to the audiobook and got to this part again and the AGONY! im so SAD help) #the locked tomb #the locked tomb spoilers #nona the ninth #nona the ninth spoilers #ntn spoilers #nona spoilers #john gaius #mercymorn the first #augustine the first #bad cop worse cop and sorry cop #like... mercy and augustine are very bad people but at least they realize that at this point forgiveness is irrelevant #while john both longs for and doesn't want absolution it seems but like. dude this isn't about you!!!!!!!! #it's about all these people you keep murdering! #how about: Stop That first of all maybe

[junebugtwin]

even while it was happening, you knew it wasn't going to last

#parahumans #worm #lisa wilbourn #tattletale #feeling BAD about my girl lisa in the club tonite #i am convinced she is the most tragic main character in worm #which is a bold statement i know #but i just cant handle even thinking about her shit FOR REAL #she knew the cops and robbers shit was bullshit! from the very beginning! #of course she did! Coil fucking forced her to work for him at gunpoint and she totally understands that #if she doesn't do what he wants shes going to end up in a torturebasement!! #she knew aall of taylors funny little problems n Issues from the start! she tried SO hard to keep her alive and at least a little happy #struggling and clinging and digging in her claws as she watches this girl somehow get Worse(?) #and every time taylor takes a step towards the void guess who sees it in excruciating detail even when taylor can't/wont!!!! #and in the end it doesn't matter!! all her schemes and plans don't amount for shit!! she doesn't save the girl! #she doesn't save the girl. #my art

[shitty-fate-merch-daily]

just discovered that my oldest friend is now engaged to her lame-ass military wannabe-cop boyfriend

#i know this is not a personal blog but i was filled with such despair #that i had to post somewhere #he is currently in the military and wants to be a cop after he finishes his service #not sure if that's better or worse than a cop who wants to be in the military #girl you have had a bad history with men since elementary school he is not different i promise u #not merch

[arsenicflame]

since we all appear to be talking about izzy 'calling the police' on stede id like to offer my silly little two cents:

its not like the navy wasn't actively looking for him anyway??????

at most, izzys actions sped up badminton catching up with stede, but its made very clear that badminton wanted Stede dead well before this, and was willing to use whatever he could to find him- whos to say jackie wouldnt have cut a deal on her own? that any other pirate thats seen them being unsubtle in a port wouldn't take the opportunity to make a quick buck over a guy who is Nobody and holds no influence that could lead to any consequences for them?

in reality izzy is probably the only person who would receive negative repercussions to selling out stede, given his personal connection with ed- any other pirate would probably have gotten away unscathed, anonymous. they likely wouldnt have even been present like izzy was. izzy had personal stakes, anyone else would have taken the money and ran

the way i see it, with or without izzy the events of episode 10 probably would have happened in some degree, izzy just expedited the timeline

#like ok. i dont exactly support izzys actions but i honestly dont see it as that big of a deal??? to our characters i mean #idk i just. its a dick move!! but i struggle to see it as any more than that #its the actions of a desperate man who made a stupid decision to get his.... ed. out of what he saw as a bad situation #whether it is or not i cant say! but you cant deny ed drastically changed in the time he was on the revenge #in a way that could be concerning from the outside #(i saw a good post kinda comparing it to your friend ending up in a cult and. yeah. excellent description from an outside perspective) #idk theres a lot of. undertones in the way people say 'calling the police' and also they always say ed too and its like. no! izzy tried to #get ed out of there! he set the navy on everyone BUT ed. and its not like the navy really cared about the crew. only stede #i am not the person to talk about why 'calling the cops' is a bad take but the posts are out there. ive seen them. #izzy did what hundreds of pirates did to save their own hide- including hornigold himself (but honestly that was worse because he actively #turned hunter. not just a guy with a tip) #also side historic note that uhh. the navy was casually in Nassau. what exactly was the situation there??? was shit occurring. w #we know it did in history #idk #nyxtalks #ofmd #izzy hands #israel hands #spanish jackie 🤝 izzy: girlbosses for selling stede out to the British/Spanish for their own gain #idk i think thats the one thing he did 'wrong' but ita still very sympathetic to me #its not like izzy dibbed in a guy nobody cared about #'hey hey ill sell you information about this pirate please let me sell you information' ' i mean i guess we are supposed to be doing that' #badminton had an active vendetta against stede and kinda seemed like. he would stop at nothing to get him??? #given. the whole 'id rather let blackbeard go and kill Stede than take a huge pirate into custody' thing

[batbabydamian]

inspired by Batgirl (2009) #5 and #7! i love the bonding between Damian and Steph while their mentors bicker/talk about them lol

#damian wayne #stephanie brown #dick grayson #barbara gordon #bad cop worse cop #whatever happened on patrol with these two was probably something silly #like maybe they didnt accomplish their mission but they had a fun time!! #also i want Damian to use his voice mimicking skills as a fun party trick more than getting past security measures lol #batbabyart

[botaniqueer]

It’s a good development that more and more people are getting disillusioned with Biden because it means people aren’t supporting politicians uncritically despite having voted for them.

The next step to make the most of this is to also realize that Biden isn’t even an outstandingly bad or good president and is average in terms of human rights abuses. What is different about Biden is that COVID, an overly gung-ho US imperialist ally (Netanyahu), and following Trump have made it much harder to control the optics and veneer that the US normally maintains.

He isn’t any more or less genocidal than any of his predecessors or anyone else we’ve personally voted for in the past, but he’s having trouble maintaining the illusion that there is such a thing as a just United States. The curtain that is usually there has been torn by a confluence of events and the machinery that has always been here is easier to see.

#Palestine #the image in my head is metal fatigue when you bend a piece of wire too much and it breaks #too much happened at once and it gave him trouble doing what other presidents are usually able to do in less eventful times #all cops are bad and the presidency is like a cop position #but several orders of magnitude worse #folks can vote but they have to do so with the mentality of ‘this person is still my foe’ #the DNC also gets mad at leftists for doing this instead of immediately prostrating outselves

[armed-with-a-waffle-iron]

Steph: Tim tried to what?

Damian: I know. The NERVE of that little man. The utter gall! It clearly speaks to his pitiful self-worth and tiny-

Steph: But what did he say?

Damian: Drake tried to insinuate that YOU used to have romantic relations with HIM!!

Steph: *eyes go wide*

Damian: Don’t worry, Stephanie, I’d never fall for such a preposterous tale. You? Involved with that pasty, half-witted wet dog? If it’s any consolation, this lousy fabrication only exists to boost his ever-poor stature amongst the men in my family.

Steph: *turns to her side and buries her face in her hands to stifle laughter*

Damian: I’m...sorry, Stephanie. *reaches out to put a hand on her shoulder but then retracts it at the last second and looks away* It must be so incredibly maddening— unsettling even; to be on the receiving end of such a vile rumor mill. I was disappointed that even Richard didn’t care to rebuke this heinous lie. MEN. Men, I say— their crude wickedness never ceases, their fragile egos never satiated, their—

Steph: *spins around and slaps both hands onto his shoulders* Thank you for telling me, Damian. You’re a trusty frie— um, comrade.

Damian: Naturally.

Steph (dramatically): Excuse me if I speak too much out of anger *Damian shakes head* but it seems like such a crime against…um…women warrants some citizens’ justice.

Damian: What are vigilantes for? *nodding very seriously* I have already sabotaged his grappling—

Steph: Red Robin isn’t our target, Damian— Tim Wayne is! You see, I have a friend with a few connections to the Daily Planet and I’m sure they’d LOVE to hear from a trusty, anonymous, inside source about...*gestures for Damian to finish*

Damian: ...About Drake’s comical death during a company-paid skiing retreat that he sanctioned.

Steph: *winks* ‘Atta boy.

#bad cop worse cop #gotham quakes at their chaos #stephanie brown #damian wayne #the siblings ever #batgirl #robin #robins #batman #batman and robin #bat family #dc comics #batfam #comics #fanfic #tim drake #pre new 52 ofc

[autistic-katara]

there r fics that make u insane (so amazingly good it’s removed ur sanity) and then there’s fics that make u insane (you need to fistfight the author for how they did a specific thing that caused u to rant for hours)

#i know i just posted that other thing but ffs that is NOT how u handle someone in that situation everyone involved made everything 10x worse #yet it’s being treated like the right thing to do (which again ofc they’re cops they don’t understand harm reduction but still) like #seriously everything’s so forceful like u seriously think forcing ur friend to talk to u or forcing a patient to talk to a therapist under #the threat of being admitted to a psychiatric hospital is gonna make her feel comfortable talking to u? or anyone? she’s just gonna trust u #less and get better at hiding it and speaking of which the taking away all sharp objects thing makes sense in theory but like think abt it #for a minute she confirmed she isn’t suicidal and this is her only way of coping so do not just forcibly take away all her coping mechanism #like yes she is hurting herself but it’s a COPING MECHANISM. she’s coping with something. help her with that don’t just take away her penci #sharpers or whatever (which btw since she’s an adult she could easily buy more stuff and yk learn to hide it better) which again has to be #voluntary it isn’t gonna work if u force someone to do smthn they don’t want to like as ur friend u could’ve made it clear u care abt her #and wouldn’t judge her for anything and r here if she wants to talk don’t just say “you have to talk to me” and casually threaten #hospitalisation when she isn’t ready in the moment like seriously if this wasn’t a badly written fanfic she would completely stop trusting #bcz given that this wasn’t even done out of panic i would like ffs u are NOT doing any of this right #oops sorry ranted abt the bad fic in my tags- #it’s not where the author’ll see it and know it’s about them i don’t feel bad abt it #this was my first time even looking at stuff for this fandom so #cw self harm in tags #idk if i need to tag anything else for that 😭 #fanfic #ao3 #ryan shut the fuck up

[laurasbailey]

i’m sure we’ll learn what became of beau (and caleb) but can we quickly cut to yasha during all of this??? beau was either dropkicked to the other side of the planet like the rest or she’s still being held captive????? girl you gotta go get your wife

#cr spoilers #yasha and essek buddy cop adventure when #bad cop worse cop lbr #i wonder if the traveller is caught up in all this god nonsense… #like how much does the nein know beyond beau and caleb??? #SO MANY QUESTIONS

[sonknuxadow]

It does kind of feel like they’re edging away from Tom being a cop in response to the fact that sonic has, historically, not exactly had a great relationship with the police and also government

Maybe it’ll turn out after the fiasco with GUN Tom decided that he’s better off doing something else (maybe being a stay at home dad???) instead??? Probably wistful thinking but still

yeah i want something along those lines to happen. like tom realizing through seeing all the bad stuff that keeps happening because of the police and military that he doesnt wanna be a cop anymore. but i doubt theyre gonna do that to be honest

#asks #this is the kinda stuff im worried about with the next movie probably being mostly based on sa2 #all of the problems in that game are caused by the police and gun #even the stuff that eggman does is a result of the chain of events that gun started #very bad possible scenario for this is that they try to rewrite it to make it come off as less anti cop #but it would also be annoying if they kept the story mostly the same but still had tom be a cop by the end #because whether they say it out loud or not the implication there is ''um not all cops are bad Actually <3 tom is a good cop so its fine'' #or worse. they DO say that part out loud and have the other characters tell shadow that he shouldnt hate the military/police #because ''well not every individual person involved in those systems is responsible for your trauma <3'' #there are so many potential nightmare scenarios here is what im saying

[vaguely-concerned]

I have seen people question whether dios apate minor really needed to happen the way it did. it's the 'this could have been an email' of htn. 'augustine this did not have to be a threesome', I hear people saying. and boy do I have an obnoxious amount of things to say to protest this perfectly sensible assertion so here we go haha

1) yes it absolutely had to be like that. It says so on this piece of paper *hands you a piece of paper that says "because I said so and also it's narratively and thematically Sexy"* in my half-legible handwriting. seeing tamsyn muir describe harrow the ninth as a book about being a kid and realizing your parents probably had sex has given me such validation, I am unstoppable now. (to be serious for a moment, harrow the ninth is essentially a bildungsroman, and the threesome scene does a whole lot of thematic heavy lifting around harrow glimpsing elements of adulthood, relationships, and sexuality she clearly finds at the same time repulsive, bewildering and fascinating, and around opening her and especially our eyes to how much john is just a man with human longings still, under the god stuff. dios apate is crucial plot- and character-wise too -- it's a loadbearing threesome in terms of delivering the clues you need to piece together the mystery plot of the book, which is simply delightful -- but even more so thematically. and then the scene at the end where they confront john gives gideon some of that same opportunity to peek into adulthood and go '...well shit I guess', as a sort of mirror, just without the french kissing that time and more murder. the things magnus and abigail model for the girls about love and adulthood? mercy and augustine are providing the opposite-day batshit insane version of that fhdskjfa, you know, for contrast and spice)

2) listen... it gets lonely out there in deep space with your 'legendary unamorous' brother, two infant pathetic baby kitten sisters who you'll probably have to kill one day when you take another stab at god if they don't manage to get themselves killed along the way on their own, and the two people you've spent the last ten thousand years having separate yet connected married & divorced arcs with and also btw one of them is god... honestly a threesome over the dinner table is probably The most well-adjusted reaction one might hope for under those circumstances

3) on a characterization level I think Augustine is actually doing something incredibly deliberate with it: he's presenting John with yet another chance to admit what he did. which is notable especially since the deal he and mercy agree on as a condition for the threesome to happen at all seems to be that they're going to give the ol' godslaying another game try sooner rather than later. (I get the sense that it's not so much that he disagrees with her ultimate goal so much as that he thinks she's being dangerously indiscreet and hasty going about it, before. “though I think it will be the death of us,” huh.)

notice how he's structuring the whole thing: he's invoking the intimacy and love in their strange little threeway relationship and how long it's been by truly playing along with john's 'we're a happy family really when we're at home! :)' delusion (helped along by lowered inhibitions via enormous amounts of alcohol and what I've previously described as a joint mercy/augustine leyendecker themed thirst trap. ah, a classic). he brings up alecto and what happened to her -- or rather, he is clever enough to make john bring up alecto and how she is totally dead, right?? by seeming to make a careless statement that leads there and then acting contrite about it after. he (helped along by mercy, who I think realizes exactly what he's doing -- this is very much a two-man con) brings up how much they all loved their cavaliers, and wow funny how that's been haunting us for ten thousand years now huh :) wow, a lot of our other lyctor friends slash family sure are super dead in the name of some unknowable greater reason neither of us quite grasp and that you won't fucking tell us, aren't they. these are all the main grievances he and mercy confront john about at the end of the book, but put forth much more subtly and not phrased as an accusation -- he's baring his and mercy's vulnerabilities as bait, essentially. if john had, say, a conscience where his conscience should be instead of a black hole, it probably should have stirred something in him.

(also let me just say... the way augustine just takes a pneumatic drill to the TWO tender spots g1deon seems to have and then has the audacity to be like 'oh dear. did that upset him. ooof my bad *loooong dead-eyed slurp of his wine*' is just sooo... he's such a bitch!!! he's the only person who could ever have held their own in a ten-thousand-year bitch-off with mercy and I love him so much. well even if it wasn't all to get g1deon into murder range for harrow I think he wouldn't enjoy sticking around for the 'getting our tongues on god' part of the evening so maybe it's a kindness, really, and totally not pent-up aggression from the last twenty years or so breaking through)

he is all but shaking john by the lapels begging him to just... come clean about it already, to stop thinking he's still kidding everyone else along with himself. it's clear throughout the book that augustine knows exactly what john is at this point -- and all of the most cynical things he does say about it turn out to be distressingly right. john is always less sentimental than you'd think. john wouldn't forgive mercy, he will abandon in a heartbeat anything that isn’t necessary to him anymore, whether emotionally or in some other way. and still he seems to hold out some desperate absurd hope that the man he wants, the man he thought was there, is in there, somewhere deep deep down, if he just gives him the chance to show himself.

(mercy definitely has her own side of this whole thing, I'm just focusing more on augustine because this evening was like. his idea in the first place and I feel like we can Read Some Things into that fact lol. now that we have both ntn and htn to go from I sort of have this sense that the things augustine wants from john are more... personal? more interpersonal? they both love him equally, but mercy's love seems tinged slightly more towards the religious (augustine accuses her of knowing 'only worship without adoration', which like... also the eight house's entire Vibe lol) -- mercy at the end of that book is totally a person breaking up with GOD, not just with john -- while augustine's vibe is more like a man in the last not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper days of a marriage that sort of felt like it could have been something real and good once but all your illusions about it have since been taken from you and trampled underfoot into the mud and you've had the divorce papers signed and ready in a drawer for over a year now, hell, as it turns out, is other people etc. lmao)

having a threesome over the dinner table with god is one thing, having a threesome over the dinner table centered on the one man and god who has yet again let you down in a way so fundamental it can barely fit into words and who you both still love in a way anyway, miserably, and also just reaffirmed your joint resolution to murder (all under the pretense that it gives your baby sisters the chance to murder your brother of ten thousand years yeah that's why this is happening no other underlying aching emotional motivations here haha)... listen mercy and augustine are simply on a different level, theologically. they've added horny shrimp colours to the religious spectrum. who else does it like them

#the locked tomb #harrow the ninth #augustine the first #mercymorn the first #john gaius #dios apate minor #bad cop worse cop and sorry cop #augustine 'when I die I want john to lower my casket #not so he can let me down one last time that's honestly a given at this point #if at all possible I just want to pull him down into the grave with me' quinque #first saint to serve the king undying #nona the ninth spoilers #nominally? in that I am saying there's relevant information to this polycule clusterfuck in it? eh let's just be safe lol #just when you thought I had no more thoughts about the terrible old people to unleash upon you... here I am again hahaha #the locked tomb meta #also yeah I mean I guess they didn't actually have to get their tongues on god on-page for all this to still be true #but I'm glad they did let them have some lyctor enrichment #hate fucking is actually lyctor love language hashtag did u kno