#what are you a COP??

[sundecided]

can yall be normal for like Five Fucking Minutes

#i can feel my brain calcifying and i cant wait for yall to feel it too so you can understand how stupid and pointless #99% of the bullshit yall argue about #actually is. #bc LORD. LOOOOOOORD. #1. its not that deep #2. nobody in the real life normal world cares #3. please touch grass #this is about multiple things dont think about it too hard #some of yall might hurt yourselves #bless your little hearts #ALSO #what are you a COP?? #why do you CAAAAARE #the block button is free #grow up. grow UP!!!!!!

[sexhaver]

calling the cops on someone else in america for drug use is the most comically evil action i can think of that you can still admit to in public and (unfortunately) not be shunned/exiled/physically attacked for. you're very explicitly saying that your sheltered discomfort with seeing someone do drugs is worth ruining that person's entire life over (even though you could get the same effect by just continuing to walk past the drug user until you never see them again). 18th century dauphin mindset. "papá! papá! i espied that peasant over yonder partaking of a snuffbox! throw him in the dungeon, lest my delicate morals be corrupted any further!" kill yourself perhaps

#*i literally do not care what drug-related trauma you have it does not justify calling the cops

[idkaguyorsomething]

five nights at freddy's is a film that creates a tense, suspenseful atmosphere of horror by having its protagonists go up against supernatural threats such as trying to navigate the job market, being forced to deal with shitty cops, and a man who willingly makes himself think of nebraska over and over again every night

#fnaf #fnaf movie #fnaf movie spoilers #maybe?? #just in case #vanessa is truly terrible at her job tho #i want someone better versed in police officer procedure than me to go through the movie and break down every law she breaks #she is to standard procedure what fazbear entertainment is to osha #so roughly above average for a cop #but damn mike's parents #you took your sons on vacation to nebraska???? #five nights at freddy's

[burins]

I know this is the Take Personal Responsibility for Systemic Issues website, but I keep seeing weirdly guilt trippy posts about libraries and ebook licenses, which are a labyrinth from hell and not actually something you personally need to feel guilty about. here are a few facts about ebook licenses you may not know:

in Libby/Overdrive, which currently operates in most US public libraries, ebook licenses vary widely in how much they cost and what their terms are. some ebooks get charged per use, some have a set number of uses before the license runs out, and others have a period of time they're good for (usually 1-2 years) with unlimited checkouts during that period before they expire. these terms are set by the publisher and can also vary from book to book (for instance, a publisher might offer two types of licenses for a book, and we might buy one copy of a book with a set number of uses we want to have but know won't move as much, and another copy with a one year unlimited license for a new bestseller we know will be really moving this year.)

you as a patron have NO way of knowing which is which.

ebook licenses are very expensive compared to physical books! on average they run about 60 bucks a pop, where the same physical book would cost us $10-15 and last us five to ten years (or much longer, if it's a hardcover that doesn't get read a lot.)

if your library uses Hoopla instead, those are all pay per use, which is why many libraries cap checkouts at anywhere between 2-10 per month.

however.

this doesn't mean you shouldn't use ebooks. this doesn't mean you should feel guilty about checking things out! we buy ebook licenses for people to use them, because we know that ebook formats are easier for a lot of people (more accessible, more convenient, easier for people with schedules that don't let them get into the library.) these are resources the library buys for you. this is why we exist. you don't need to feel guilty about using them!

things that are responsible for libraries being underfunded and having to stretch their resources:

government priorities and systemic underfunding of social services that don't turn a profit and aren't easily quantified

our society's failure to value learning and pleasure reading for their own sake

predatory ebook licensing models

things that are not responsible for libraries being underfunded:

individual patron behavior

I promise promise promise that your personal library use is not making or breaking your library's budget. your local politicians are doing that. capitalism is doing that. you are fine.

(if you want to help your local library, the number one thing you can do is to advocate for us! talk to your city or county government about how much you like the library. or call or write emails or letters. advocate for us locally. make sure your state reps know how important the library is to you. there are local advocacy groups in pretty much every state pushing for library priorities. or just ask your local librarian. we like to answer questions!

also, if you're in Massachusetts, bill h3239 would make a huge difference in letting us negotiate ebook prices more fairly. tell your rep to vote for it!)

#like. the nypl budget is getting cut bc Adams doesnt think the library matters! #your checking out a book a few times bc you didn't get to it in time is not actually affecting Mr. Cops Not Books #library haint #if you like the library and you like free stuff come use the library. you might be surprised about what we have! #but it's not a moral act either way. #libraries are a public good! i love the library! but so is the post office. we don't moralize about the post office. #ANYWAY. #local librarian with tendencies towards scrupulosity gets frustrated online more news at 10

[aropride]

or multiple cops

#text #i mentioned this once and a couple people were like What the fuck do you mean school cop so . #is this a murica thing

[dank-meme-legend]

Sweet

Word Count: 744

(Slight NSFW implications/references)

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Ava lies with her head on Lilly's stomach, looking up at her with a dopey smile on her face.

They're both high for the first time in years.

Neither of them know what sparked the idea of getting high this afternoon, but they're too far gone to try and remember it.

The last time they'd gotten high was during their senior year of high school.

Now, they're both in their own house together, working through the end of college.

College kids do stupid things, like drink and do any number of rebellious shenanigans.

Ava and Lilly are no different.

Though, getting high in their own little house is more their speed than a raging party with drinking games and rowdy sorority girls and fraternity boys.

They've never been the rebellious types, this is the most rebellious thing either of them will probably ever do.

Lilly rests her hand on Ava's shoulder, giving it a gentle squeeze.

"What're you smiling about?" She asks, smiling herself.

"I'm smiling, 'cause I feel great! This was a great idea." Ava replies, "We should do this every Friday!"

Lilly laughs faintly,

"I feel great, too."

She glances down at Ava and she feels really, really great, with being close to her like this and all.

She's great and happy with her girlfriend, her heart feels light and giddy.

Ava, with the sudden spark of an idea, looks back at Lilly, sitting up and scooting towards her.

"Hi." She says, in her slightly new position.

Lilly, delirious, can't help but laugh in response,

"Hi."

Ava's eyes go all over her, taking in the simplistically beautiful sight of Lilly in one of her t-shirts.

The shirt is one of Ava's favorites, one of her favorites to let Lilly borrow.

A navy blue, "College Of Winterhold" shirt.

It's a dumb joke that the two of them think is funny, especially now that they're actually in college.

Though, their own college has a distinct lack of magic and field trips to ancient ruins.

It lazily hangs off of Lilly's shoulder, stretched out from years of wear, showing the freckles that have been clustering since their days in the sun over summer break a few months ago.

Ava wants to set a day aside to unveil every freckle and kiss it.

A day when they're older, though.

Even older than they are now.

The idea of intimacy, raw and blunt and vulnerable intimacy, is something they've vaguely talked about, but have never done.

A time will come, but that time isn't anytime right now.

And that's okay.

For now, right now, Ava goes with what is right in front of her, leaning forward to reach Lilly's shoulder.

"What are you doing?" Lilly asks her curiously.

Ava kisses her shoulder.

"This." She answers bluntly into her skin, "Is it okay?"

"Mhm."

Ava kisses her, again and again, and Lilly soaks it in.

She loves this.

God, she loves this so much.

It's the sweetest thing ever, Ava is the sweetest person ever.

The sweetest person ever, who's left hand snakes around Lilly's waist to pull them closer together, holding it on her thigh.

Her right hand goes up, resting over Lilly's heart to feel it thump, thump, thump slowly underneath her palm.

"Hey, I love you. You know that, right?" Lilly sighs, putting her left hand over Ava's right.

Ava leans back a little bit, going a little upwards,

"Yeah, I know. I love you, too."

She kisses her neck, telling her, "I love you a lot."

Lilly knows it, she knows Ava loves her a lot.

It's a known fact.

Ava bites her neck the tiniest bit, enough to make Lilly hastily ask,

"What the hell-"

Ava is grinning at her mischievously,

"Just wanted to see what would happen." She laughs, feigning innocence.

Lilly sighs deeply, laughing herself now.

The sweetest person ever can also be a mischievous little devil.

A curious, mischievous little devil, who only ever shows her curious mischief when her mind is floating in a haze of pot and the fuzzy warmth of the love of her life.

"Don't do it again, alright? I can't show up to class with love-bites all over me."

"Alright, alright..."

She lays her head on the pillow, and hugs Lilly tightly, not planning on letting go any time soon.

Lilly leans into her, she could stay here until the weekend is over and do nothing else.

She wouldn't mind that at all.

#m’s one day at a time #m’s art #ava and lilly #avly #wlw #autistic main character #they’re in college yippee #and they’re high 😳😳 #I am starting college next week and I’m jittery as HELL about it #so I write about my girls having a fun time to ease my jitters #I DREW THEM YAYYY #I DREW LILLY’S FRECKLES YAYYY #..which have totally been there the whole time.. #..I haven’t been forgetting to draw them this entire time why are you asking me that? #…I didn’t just write them being a new thing as a clever way to disguise my forgotfulness #what are you a cop??

[egg-on-a-legg]

been listening to music recently

#the mechanisms #the mechs #the mechs fanart #jonny dville #jonnny d'ville #nastya rasputina #eggsdraws #gives them tails because idk. i think its neat. what are you a cop?

[writer-room]

I think another clear theme of Spiderverse is that, as we’re told in the first movie, anyone can be Spider-Man. But in the second movie, Miguel tells us that Spider-Man has rules. Certain things have to happen, certain people have to die, certain people aren’t meant to be Spider-Man. And the message there is that, once someone makes those kinds of rules, you run. Because it’s just not true. Anyone, literally anyone, can be Spider-Man. There is no requirement. We’ve been shown you don’t even need to be bitten by a spider!

And with the amount of people comparing Spiderverse to the queer experience, this is especially important. There are no rules to being queer. There are no labels that are exclusive. There are no labels that are even required. As soon as someone says you can’t be queer in a certain way, or certain identities don’t ‘count’ for whatever reason, you need to run. They are liars. There are no rules, and there never have been. You are queer because you said so, and this is your decision alone.

If you decide you’re Spider-Man, then you’re Spider-Man. And if you decide you’re going to save everyone you can, then you will. It’s as simple as that.

#spiderverse #spiderman into the spiderverse #spiderman across the spiderverse #across the spiderverse #spiderverse spoilers #spider verse #miguel o'hara #miguel ohara #queer #lgbt #miles morales #spiderman #spider-man #text post #talk #spider-punk is perfect for this because yeah! yeah! if someone tries to make a system #or a bunch of rules about what you can BE. and how you can BE this very person #theyre just a fckin cop! just straight up! and theyre wrong! i dont care how good the intention is #if there are rules to how you can function as a person then theyre wrong and you should run very far away from them! #a good cop is not a good person. gwens dad was a good cop. he only became a good father when he stopped being a cop #miguel is a hero but he is not a good person. he is saving millions of strangers and killing hundreds of loved ones #he knows he is not like the other spidermen and he thinks this means he has to be the one exception. miles cannot be the new exception #there are no rules to being a human. there are no rules to existing. there are no rules to being yourself and being happy #if someone tries to tell you there are things you must or mustnt do then every single time they are lying to you #maybe they dont mean to. but theyre liars. you decide your fate and who you are. nobody else can ever take that from you #please never forget that

[caffichai]

Velma with something insightful to say

#“If you spot a monster and call the cops then you've got two monsters!” #That is if they bother to show up anyway #It's Halloween season #and what's more fitting than a member of the Scooby gang? #I'd have drawn them all if I had the time but alas #Scooby doo #scooby gang #velma dinkley #digital art #pixel #pixel art #artists on tumblr #Art

[oifaaa]

It is funny going through the Spotify wrapped tag bc every few posts is like "Tell me what your 69th song is?" "Put in the tags what you got for your 420th top song" like pure school vibes of everyone after a test asking each other what you got for number 9

#spotify wrapped #also what are you guys cops #mind your business

[uncanny-tranny]

It is my sincerest and unironic belief that we must invest in preserving "old technology." The more we move to a hegemonic, easily-surveilled way of living, the worse we will find this world to be.

Letters, public phones and transport, cash, and so much more are key to ensuring both freedom of movement and information, but also to combat the surveillance state. We need to preserve the ability to both access the world but also to be untraceable. I truly hope more people start to recognize this. It isn't about nostalgia for the past. It is about ensuring that we are actually afforded freedom, from the richest person to the person who lives on the sidewalk.

#politics #i was ranting at my dad about how pissed i am that the US has essentially killed the payphone because we have smartphones #imagine killing letters because 'oough we have email though!!!' #i'm sure people advocate for abolishing mail (and i have seen it firsthand) but i don't agree with it #we must preserve freedom of movement and information and that includes making it as accessible and public as possible imo #i do not want to live in a world wherein my smartphone is both what i MUST rely on but it is also traceable 24/7/52/365 #'if you're innocent you have nothing to hide' is a fucking cop-out to permit a surveillance state by the way #it is flawed logic and i think that logic is part of the reason we got to this point #'why do you need cash? that's kind of suspicious to not LET people trace your purchases' like come ON

[whumpacabra]

Writing Accessibility PSA

Please avoid using long strings of characters as line breaks in your writing - these are not screen reader/TTS friendly!

Every ‘°’ will be read as ‘degree’ - can you imagine how long it takes to read out a string of 25? Let alone more complicated combinations of characters (eg. imagine listening to TTS read out ~*~ |°| ~*~ multiple times per line break)?

A good rule of thumb is to stick with short, 2-3 character line breaks (eg. I don’t find — or *** too egregious to listen to). Your readers can tell there’s been a scene change whether you use two or twenty em-dashes, but if you use twenty, some of us might have to listen for 30 seconds to read the next scene. If you’re more concerned about aesthetics, you can insert an image of your aesthetically pleasing line break with alt text simply reading ‘line break’ for accessibility.

Don’t feel bad if this is something you’ve never thought about before - now you know better and can make your writing more accessible moving forward!

I would like to invite any other screenreader users to add their own thoughts or preferences to this post. We’re not a monolith and there’s a variety to how different softwares interact with repeating character strings and images with alt text, so there’s bound to be some conflicting opinions on what I’ve suggested above. Let’s try to make the stories we share accessible for everyone :]

#writing #accessibility #line breaks #linebreaks #screen readers #tts #text to speech #whump community #<- applicable to any digital writing but tagging for my own reference. as this is my whump blog. #maybe I’m old but back in my day there was a little kerfuffle about how many people kept using complicated character string linebreaks #on ao3 which has a native line break you can insert via html #I don’t know if you can still do that on tumblr desktop with all the changes recently so I’ve been sticking to my trusty — #this is all in good faith no harm no foul and I’m not a cop so do what you want with your linebreaks. #I’m just putting this out there because it wasn’t something I really thought about before using a screenreader myself

[stressfulsloth]

I've seen a couple of takes about Disco Elysium being copaganda going around recently, and beyond the fact that DE is relentlessly critical of the police force in general and makes explicit reference to the failures of the system that allow the officers in game to abuse their power, I also think it's important to note that there very literally is an in-world version of copaganda that the writers of the game use to parody that romanticised view of the brutality of policing. The RCM at their inception were structurally inspired by in-world copaganda- their culture, their "fashions, even weapon preferences, borrow heavily from classic Vespertine cop shows." Every investigation is it's own little drama, every officer imagining themselves to be the bad-ass hero of their own crime serial. Detectives name their cases like they're naming episodes of a TV series in a "robust but literary system"; a title that "draws inspiration from snoop fiction and Vespertine cop show staples". They give themselves nicknames to sound like cool, suave fictional officers- Ace, Dick Mullen, etc.- from the cool, suave world of copaganda.

The legend of the RCM's inception, the "point of contention" over its uncertain origins, is even an extention of that; the whole organisation is shrouded in this self-fictionalising mythos that allows for distance that in turn obfuscates much of its violence to the officers that participate in it. They get to convince themselves that they're not abusing their power; they're the hero of the story! The dichotomy of "good guy" taking out the "baddies," a manifestation of the libertarian fantasy of the "good guy with a gun" who does what it takes, just like in Annette's detective novels, and at the same time who rails against oversight bodies like Internal Affairs/'the rat squad' because due process slows down the immediate satisfaction of Swift Justice, despite Internal Affairs existing to protect the citizens from overreach on behalf of the police. "Wanton brutality" from police in their real world is a cold bitter reality but Dick Mullen was "made to crack skulls," "bend the rules and solve cases no one else can," and which version of that story is more comforting to the overworked, underfunded officers of the RCM?

The level of fantasy and detachment required for the cops to still see themselves as the good guys after everything that they do in the line of duty mimics The Pigs and her breakdown too; she parallels Harry so clearly. Both "did right by the kids" in the past, hoping for a better future- Marianne (The Pigs) by looking out for Titus and the Hardy boys when they were young, Harry in his role as a gym teacher. Both abandoned and left behind by the system that the RCM uphold- a brutal capitalist landscape with no safety nets. Both turning the source of their trauma into a costume, a performance, a shield, shaped by "radio waves and cop shows." The Pigs uses RCM items scavenged from the Esperance where they'd been thrown away, while Harry uses the Dick Mullen hat that Annette gives him but both are essentially in costume.

Harry identifies himself with the fictional detective as a kind of wish fulfilment; Dick Mullen is "wicked smart." He doesn't fuck up his cases and when he's sad it's not pathetic; it's effortlessly cool brooding and everyone sympathises. Everyone loves him. His violence- "skull crack[ing]"- is justified because he's a "good guy" enacting that violence against the victims of police brutality sorry "bad guys". He doesn't ever face repercussions; "Dick Mullen won't be sent to the clink for the sake of some legal niceties!" So if Harry is Dick Mullen then his failures, his breakdown, they're all just a part of being a "bad-ass, on-the-edge disco cop." He's not wrong, he's a hero! This idealised fictionalised idea of the police force, this "new, sadly better, reality" that both Harry and The Pigs cling to is "escapist stuff," "receed[ing] into a ludicrous fantasy world," so far removed from the brutal material reality that they're in.

My point is, idk. Disco Elysium is so far from being copaganda. It is a multi-million word long dissection of it, of the purpose of policing, of state sanctioned violence and its interaction with capital and the fallout experienced within the wider community as well as the trauma cycle created for individual officers. A dissection of how copaganda interacts with RCM culture and perception, and by extension how we interact with irl perceptions of police through that lens.

#ouaghhhhhhh disclaimer; i am bad with words and im not sure that i've properly expressed what i'm trying to say but this is getting so long #the cops are not meant to be the good guys #if you think i've missed something here pls let me know!! #disco elysium #harry du bois #DE rambling #marianne leplante #the pigs #actually just one last note- this isnt in response to any one particular thing ive seen but a few different posts comments and articles

[stealingpotatoes]

pushing my 'the force is anakin's deadbeat dad' agenda again

(ko-fi requests are open!)

#'potes are you projecting on anakin' what are you a cop #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #star wars #my doods

[mispelled]

I've been meaning to draw this for over a year

#it was my first thought after finding out duncan trussell voices ron james #which was right after watching midnight gospel and finding out pendleton ward worked on it #ron james is actually so important to me but im not gonna lie its 90% because duncan's voice calms me down #thats what you get when you listen to the dtfh podcast to fall asleep every night. i guess #mispelled draws #misp draws #i have been drawing a lot #and maybe normal people would use a queu or whatever but im not a normal people so we're posting as soon as im done drawing it lolll #also background practice with adventure time screenshots is so good #adventure time #adventure time fanart #the midnight gospel #the midnight gospel clancy #clancy gilroy #adventure time ron james #adventure time wizard cops #the midnight gospel fanart #crossover #duncan trussell

[hajihiko]

Covering bases✅

#Fuyuhiko kuzuryu #Kazuichi Souda #Sdr2 #Super danganronpa 2 #Danganronpa 2 #Danganronpa #Kuzusouda #The Trust(TM) I'm such a sucker for teammates like covering each others weak points... strategy is a love language #An art #Tiny things that make peoples lives easier <3 like letting someone sit with their back to the wall. Warning someone before u touch them #Do both of those apply to me maybe. What are you a cop