nobody knows what they're doing. live your chaos.

Real lawyer plays Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney

Japanese law doesn't require evidence to be presented for review by both parties. "SURPRISE!!! I have facts you weren't aware of!" is very much a thing there.

The entire game was written to show how messed up the Justice System is there.

Japanese courts have a 99% conviction rate. In essence, if you are accused of a crime you are already considered to be guilty and it is up to you to prove otherwise if you can. Remember in the end of Persona 5, where the person who falsely accused you of assaulting them confessed to everything on national television but you were still in prison until your friends tracked down every witness and got them all the recant their testimonies individually? That was in no way exaggerated.

Also Japanese police have a 90+% rate of successfully arresting a “suspect” for every crime they investigate. At first this sounds really impressive, how they always track down the criminal, until you realize that they do it through a combination of refusing to investigate crimes which seem hard to solve or are likely to involve organizes crime or politicians (lots of “suicides” and “accidents” which are very blatant murder), and any time they do open a case but fail to figure everything out in the first day or two they just grab a convenient scapegoat (usually poor, frequently an immigrant or ethnic minority).

There are also very few restrictions on how long you can be “interrogated” for after arrest, or what they can do to you during the interrogation. Almost all the accused confess to everything... eventually. Regardless of whether they were actually anywhere near the incident in question.

Yeah no, death note was also about how fuck up japanese police are. The reason the death note causes people to have heart attacks if you dont put a cause of death is because thats the go to excuse cops use if they dont want to investigate a case or cant solve it fast enough. And giving the death note to the police chiefs son and then exposing that son to be a fuckin freak and mass murderer was very much extremely intentional. The japanese justice system is extremely fucked up

Ok I know this has been said but

Things to bring back in books:

Some excellent additions from the notes:

[guy who likes to help everyone always but is also suicidal and some sort of pervert voice] no yeah you can drink my blood. It’s fine

this is what we like to call “containing multitudes.”. which i do. I do not contain blood anymore however

i just posted this like 30 minutes ago. Give me time to breathe damn

I’m so mad because this worked

help me roger

Reblogging myself because

Originally posted by gifs-for-the-masses

Reblogging myself because… what was that? Five minutes?

O_O

………my friend has made me curious

help me roger

Update: after I reblogged this someone messaged me offering me tickets to the sold out Hausu screening with a Q&A and autograph session with the director

These never work for me, but here’s to trying.

Eh Roger is cute I might as well

That fish is so happy it makes me happy.

I have no luck right now. Halp.

Why does this have so many notes

because its not one of your posts.

Roger is precious to me.

Help me Roger

I mean…. my page is dead anyways. No one comments or asks questions via the ask thing so I guess I could.

Oh if people need context for live slug reaction this is the original post. I'm not sure why it's blowing up today but it sure is hilarious

i entirely get why people are like "actually knights were historically land-owning nobles waging war on people" and reminding people that idealised modern conceptions of knights are not historically accurate, it's just really really funny given that people have been idealising the institution of knighthood since like. the twelfth century or earlier, go take it up with fucking chrétien de troyes

(in fact i would argue that when most modern people refer to "medieval knights" they are not in fact referring to the historical institution of knighthood at all, but to the literary tradition of knights as found in chivalric romance, and therefore thinking of them as hot men who rescue damsels and defend the weak is not inaccurate, as long as one recognises that this is a literary knight and not a historical knight, and also that this knight probably still commits wildly horrifying murders every now and again and doesn't really respect women despite rescuing them)

lotta people reblogging this with tags about how the modern concept has drifted so far from the historical reality that the term has lost its meaning or whatever but that's completely missing the point i was trying to make. i'm saying that that idealised fantasy has been there *all along*. practically as soon as you get a formalised institution of knighthood, you've got people writing stories about how cool and sexy and chivalrous knights are. it's not that the modern conception as found in fantasy novels has drifted, it's that the modern conception has always been based on chivalric romance more than on reality.

the literary history of knights is a different strand of history than the historical reality of knights and that is the history that many people are responding to; it remains a historical idea and concept even if it has always been a literary one. "correcting" people's understanding of literary knights with reference to historically 'accurate' knights is, most of the time, comparing apples and oranges and then complaining that the 'apple' has segments when it was in fact always an orange

bro no homo but if we were fictional characters there would be so much fanfic where we kiss

this guy gets it

*grabs both your hands in gesture of sincerity*

Don't let this die. Taylor Swift is the Pollution Queen now. We need meme edits with her photoshopped onto backgrounds of wildfire-ravaged landscapes and oil refineries chugging out black smoke.

Photo of smudgy black eye shadow? That's THE Taylor Swift-inspired look now, it represents fossil fuels.

We need parodies of Taylor Swift songs about pollution and killing polar bears.

Give her representatives a full-time job for the rest of their lives defending her from the phrase "Pollution Queen." Make this meme a the figurehead of an entire fleet of other celebrity-terrorizing memes.

"But this doesn't dismantle the system that—" Shut. Don't care. Isn't it great that such a huge portion of environmental damage is being done by human individuals with egos, whose feelings can be hurt when people are mean?

Money can save you from physical harm, but can it save you from looking ridiculous?

Like this

queen of the world to me

leoreturns:

Will it hit a million notes today?

Will it hit 2 million notes today?

people who don't wear glasses are so weird like you just wake up and your eyes are pussy fresh??

thats not the word I meant to use

None of these words are in the bible.

au contraire, mon ami

dont weird pussy, that's woke stale. penis absolute.

i’m sorry cock is in the bible?

Matthew 26:34 KJV

Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.

huh i didn’t know edging was in the bible either

Of course it is, they've been waiting over two thousand years for the second coming

which is definitely not an omen

"And I beheld two horses, one dark as the night, one pale as snow, charge through the streets of Londonium, awash with blood"

Oddly specific. Got a deposit for 6,837 today

fuck it, i never ever do those “reblog for X, this one really works!” posts, but this one doesn’t have any of that BS, this is just straight up wishing us good things; and then the comment doesn’t even say any of that either. Zero claims on this post, all positive vibes

May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love

Miss Congeniality (2000) Dir. Donald Petrie