These are the solutions we need to policing right now. Remember: the problem cannot be solved by technocratic solutions (i.e. body cams, further trainings, etc.) The problem is policing itself.

This is the sort of shit I am talking about when I say we need to only talk about getting rid of police but also about what sort of actual safety could replace it.

And no, it is not enough for this to exist ‘next to the police’. The harm is in the fact that circumstances of personal and interpersonal harm are viewed through the lens of law and punishment. 

The moment we take the concept of laws & punishment completely off the table and start thinking in needs and how to provide them, we become capable of seeing what is needed to achieve actual safety.

if you are in high school and you follow me idc if you learn nothing else from me, but learn this: do not join the fucking military. they will promise you all sorts of things in exchange for joining their muder-system for a few years. do not listen to them. you won’t find a sense of purpose, you won’t find an adventure, you might not even get the money they promise you for college. if you survive, you’ll come back with blood on your hands, feeling just as aimless as before except knowing you’re a killer. the government will drop you like hot potatoes the second you are not useful to them, and you will be on your own with nothing but some ptsd and a more intimate understanding of the phrase “blood for oil.”

They also have a way of targeting POC as well as those who are in a family that isn’t doing well financially. Be wary of any and all recruiters.

Read this thread if you wanna know what the military does to people

I also recommend the podcast What a Hell of a Way to Die, which is by two men who joined the military very young, (one of them was 17) and then became very leftist socialists after seeing it for what it really is. They cover a lot of topics like anti imperialism, military propaganda, fascism, and talk about all if it from a perspective I haven’t heard before.

They did an episode about this topic pretty recently, titled Recruiting 16-Year-Olds: Patriotic Child Grooming.

Just like... listen, I know why people fell off Amnesty. It was a Base Breaker to be sure and like, it’s so different from the High Fantasy world but... it’s so good. Like, here’s just some really good stuff from Amnesty:

Tl;dr I totally respect Balance fans that fell off of Amnesty but at the same time... I cry every single time and it’s still That Good Good Content that deserves to be talked about and maybe even some new fans might like it.

Amnesty is good shit!!

"she's cis she's just pretending to be a boy' ok oliver truscum just bc thats the same thing your parents say about you doesn't mean you get to repeat it about other trans people

telling other transmascs that they're not really boys won't make your parents stop misgendering you. just because you want your parents to see you're not faking 'like those other transtrenders' doesn't mean they'll be like 'oh we were SO WRONG and we LOVE our son' because I've seen what parents say about their trans kids and here's a fun fact: to them all of us are the same. they don't care. crow who uses far/faer pronouns online isn't the reason that your parents are transphobic, they're transphobic because they suck, and if you think like this it's genuinely disgusting that you're blaming other trans people for the shitty behavior of cis people

here’s a little comic about taking out your insecurities on others, positive outlets, and forgiveness :3c

Taako: I don’t do any of this pining shit! I take action! I get results!

Lup: You asked Kravitz to move in with you because you hated saying goodbye after every date

Taako: I take action. I get results.

pining.jpeg

[ID: Line art comic of Taako, an elven wizard, and Kravitz, the grim reaper in a simplified, chibi format. Kravitz gives Taako a kiss on the forehead, dressed in his reaper cape and holding his scythe. He is then drawn about to enter a portal, while saying, “I’ll see you later, bye!” Below it is a drawing centered on Taako looking off distantly. below it is a  close up on Taako’s face. He looks a little lonely. The caption by his face reads: “wait, come back.” End ID.]

ok but like when did self-sacrifice become synonymous with death? writers seem to have forgotten that people can make personal sacrifices for the greater good without giving their lives. plots about self-sacrifice and selflessness don’t always have to end in death. suffering doesn’t have to be mourning. you can create drama and emotional depth on your show without killing everyone. learn to explore the meaning of living rather than dying

Death. Is. NOT. The. Only. Way. To. Advance. The. Narrative.

Fun things to sacrifice for your loved ones in your free time that don’t include death and actually set up for a whole new season of high level drama:

- humanity (mostly applicable to sci-fi/supernatural genre) - memories (mostly applicable to sci-fi/supernatural genre) - love for that special someone (mostly applicable to sci-fi/supernatural genre) - emotions (mostly applicable to sci-fi/supernatural genre) - rank/position/ - yourself/your brain/your skills (give yourself over to bad guys and become their brainwashed agent so your loved ones live) - years of bloody ruthless traditions to make way for peace (hi lexa and fuck jroth tbh) - freedom (includes that of speech/mind/will) - your grandpa’s fortune - hell even material possessions have that girl sacrifice her goddamn house so they can pay off her gf’s student loans or whatever juST STOP KILLING CHARACTERS TO FURTHER YOUR PLOT

Other things to sacrifice:

- your most sought-after goal

- a strongly-held belief or conviction

- your own chance at happiness

other fun things to sacrifice:

-a finger -an eye -10-20 years of your life -some of your vitality or dexterity -your ability to magically see in the dark -your proficiency in battle axes -your good looks -your memory of the man who killed your wife -everything but your head

hey here’s a great thing to sacrifice to advance the narrative:

- your revenge.

because revenge plots have been weirdly enshrined, especially in the action genre, and imo if you can’t concieve of your action hero giving up on revenge for the greater good they’re not much of a hero are they.

just listen to TAZ: The Suffering Game - watch and learn.

You can sacrifice your whole human body without dying!

This one has been laying around the whole summer, but this is as finished as it’s gonna get

I HATE the rhetoric that like "well, x identity makes cis/het people take LGBT people less seriously"

Sorry, I forgot that being LGBT was about pleasing straight cis folk???? An identity is personal and about how an individual feels, not coddling -phobes or even allies.

this is a reminder to always double check your sources. you are not immune to terf indoctrination tactics

underrated adventure zone moment: when taako gets asked his name on Rockport Limited and he’s just like “……….Justin”

Hey guys! I made like, a formulary/poll on transgender issues for a college homework, I need to reach to as many people as possible, so if you guys could help me answer it, I’ll be real thankful! it’s really short, won’t take more than a minute. 

The internet is unsafe for children

If you’re 15 or under and you’re making nsfw jokes on the regular, you need to step back and realize that is not normal, that is not a good example of productive internet usage

If you’re 16 and you have a “kink list” there is something wrong with how the internet has affected you. Take a step back and assess yourself

fun facts

amazon has bought cloud photo apps, shut them down, and then used the photos on them as training data sets for facial recognition

amazon also has Ring, the cloud-connected doorbell security camera, and has partnered with local police departments to sell more Ring doorbells and give Ring footage to police without warrants or homeowner consent

and considering the fact that Ring’s terms of service basically say amazon can do whatever the fuck they want with any of your Ring data, they’re almost definitely using it for making their facial recognition software better

they’re also selling the facial recognition software for super cheap and make it super easy to use on AWS so like. lol. welcome to mass surveillance hell. walking up to someone’s door might put you in an amazon database. isn’t that great?

I know TAZ has some completely epic lines that resonate with people like the “I saw seven birds” speech and “Our capacity for love increases” speech but what’s everyone’s favorite stupid line that for some reason lodged in your head beyond the others I’ll start 

Mine is when Taako and Barry are talking in the Beach Episode and Taako says “Barold… Barold…. I rolled an Eleven Barold, you have to tell me.”

“The late Merle Highchurch rolled a five”

Griffin: “Are you using the umbrella like Mary Poppins-style? You don’t need to.” Justin: “Oh, natch. And I don’t need to. For sure. But I deffo am.”

“I can fuck any onion I want!”

“the memory of my grandfather’s name died long before i was born”

“hot diggity shit that is a baller cookie”

“How do you not have a d6 it comes with every game?!” “My daughter…” “Eats them for power????”

“You haven’t seen this ass!”

“what’d you do merle?” “laid down in the road”

“When’d you go soft? Huh? When’d you go soft? When we were growin’ up- we were growin’ up together, in the streets. Out there, in the streets of Goldcliff, You were never soft. You saw- you saw a dead bird, you- you’d step on it. You’d say, ‘I hate birds!’ You were- you had, no heart. Heartless Hank, we called you. Was it Hank? Remind me what your real name is, ‘cause I  can only remember the great nicknames I’ve given you over the months.”

Don’t think! SMACK!

“Between this fan and this fancy sunbrella, I’m one seventeen inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara”

“I smile at her gently, and I sing: Hello/My name is Elder Merle/And I would like to share with you this most amazing book.”

“Okay. She brings the shovel down directly on your head.”

“It’s called/Extreme Teen Bible/It will solve all your problems/Do you wanna take a look?”

“Clinton, you just got clocked by a shovel.”

“That’s CLINT MCELROY the loser janitor!”

“Clint McElroy, who BELLIGERENTLY REFUSES TO DO A CHARACTER VOICE depsite making his living off of doing so for forty years.”

“i actually go long times without killing anyone”

“it’s ok we all have dry spells… beat a man to death with your bare hands…”

“Wait, do you guys wanna leave? If you guys wanna leave, we can just leave. Do you wanna leave the cell? ‘Cause we can just— do you guys just wanna leave? I thought we were playing it cool. Like, we can just leave.” 

“No im a flesh boy”