genquerdeer:

erikkillmongerdontpullout:

vague-humanoid:

sevenmoths:

full offense but the increase in cop shows in recent years being concurrent with the more widespread condemnation of the police is not a fucking coincidence

‘Dragnet’ was straight up LAPD propaganda, on national TV for years

Police Dramas on Television – Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology

Some history, cop shows exist to make the public like cops.

Remember when I said this and people where mad because I would kiss the ground B99 walked on?

• Original detective stories of Sherlock Holmes: depict police as stiff and lacking imagination
• Later developments from early 20th century (Agatha Christie and such): similarly, police is stupid and easily tricked by criminals, and smart amateurs have to save the day
• around 1930s ‘hardboiled’ and noir fiction: police are every bit and corrupt and detestable as criminals, and sometimes ARE the gangsters. These are almost entirely realistic, as they’re often written from actual experiences of real private detectives
• 1940s, vigilante detective fiction like Batman and the Shadow: where as always, police is portrayed as at worst corrupt and at best useless, and it’s up to brilliant people in masks to solve crimes
• 1950s: SUDDENLY with Dragnet, police are all brilliant crimefighter heroes who solve all the crimes, and are Always Lawful Good, and criminals are Always Chaotic Evil
• onwards: 80-90% of detective fiction is about cops, and usually follows the Dragnet formula (e.g. stuff like CSI)

Thesis: police procedural is a predatory creation that has co-opted the notoriously anti-cop genre of detective fiction, whose primary starting idea was that cops were little more than thugish brutes, unsuited to subtle scientific art of solving crimes, and turned it into shallow propaganda.

Thesis point 2: Scooby Doo are the only unproblematic modern detective stories.

inaccuratedbz:

Vegeta: Goodnight Trunks.

Trunks: Goodnight dad. 

Vegeta: Goodnight monster who lives under the bed and eats children who are bad. 

Bulma: *through radio under bed* GOODNIGHT

neoncomets:

neoncomets:

I basically just repeat the phrases “oh my god”, “holy shit”, and “hell yeah” and that’s the extent of my personality

that would explain my simple vocabulary and general buffoonery

jumpingjacktrash:

radiojamming:

I haven’t been able to get the full video but we just celebrated one of our steam locomotives turning 145 by chucking a chocolate cake into her firebox

broke: technology and magic can’t coexist

woke: magitech

bespoke: s͓̮͉͎̕a̙̤͇͍̗̺͜c̨̫r̮i̺̗f̖̜̤į̘̥̰̤̺̯̭c̛̯̦̲e̞̠̞̤ ͇͙̲̗̩͜c̡̭ak̶͉̲e̥͖̯͇
͖̜͉̳͓̩͢to̻̼̦͎̼ ̧̳͎̲ţ̲͎̖͈̥̩h̥e͏ ̩e̝̰͖̪n͞g̣͇̮͙̮̖̙i̦͖n̙̺̖e̳͍
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lokirulz:

betterbemeta:

bogleech:

I see some HEATED debates over the risks of “toying” with ouija boards in Halloween/horror groups I follow and I just want to say a ouija board is literally a toy for kids and if polterghosties existed I’d still seriously doubt that a piece of wood invented by Milton Bradley is a real magical conduit to their dimension

hasbro owns the trademarks and copyrights associated with the ouijia board so all you’re likely to contact is twilight sparkle or megatron

apscores:

fuck pronouns, i go by bronouns. call me dude or don’t call me at all.

lunalight-venom:

after 20 years, green finally snapped

a-trex:

• giant inflatable Lugia that barely fits in the house