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I like the idea of a cop character who looks and acts like he’s in the Mob.
>He acts SUPER Italian
>He always has some cousin that can help them out on a case (either as an informant or they can fix up a car or whatever) and they’re all different people, but they’re all named Tony
>Whenever he’s interrogating a suspect he always does borderline mob shit like “it sure would be a shame if something were to happen”.
>Hair and fashion sense are 10/10
>Slugger
>His Captain is requesting background checks on him every few months and while he can’t find any connections, it just keeps coming up
Idk. I think it would be a good running gag
Like, he just happens to have a very extensive, close-knit, well-connected family who have nothing whatsoever to do with the Mafia?
Exactly. And he himself doesn’t do anything illegal, he’s a good cop, but he still has the same rhythms and mannerisms of a Mafia enforcer. Like, he only listens to Sinatra on stakeouts, he has connections out the wazoo in Little Italy, he’s super intimidating and he postures constantly. He has regular dinners with his family, his dad is the patriarch who runs a /completely legitimate/ pizza joint.
And the jokes always come from him saying and doing things that, taken out of context, you would think is mob related. Like “I gotta do a favor for my uncle” and he buys a bunch of saws and hammers and everything, drives away all ominously, except then you find out he’s building his uncle a deck.
Or one of his coworkers has some trouble with their sink and he goes “I got somebody who can take care of that for ya” real intimidating like. And a day later this humongous italian guy (named Tony, of course) shows up and the coworker thinks he’s gonna get whacked, but Tony just holds up a toolbox and goes “I heard you had some trouble with your sink?” really polite and everything.
I’m just in love with how close you could make that without going over the line. He gives his squad a heart attack every few days but he always shows up with fresh cannoli.
His family calls him "Vinny the Mangler" or something, but it's because he can't cut up a piece of meat without absolutely destroying it
Yes
Or his partner walks in on him telling this story about how his dad keeps giving him grief for “botching the job on that poor son of a bitch” and they think he killed someone and buried the body but he was talking about the time he was seven and messed up a pizza.
He calls every lady “Doll” and every guy a “Bozo” and the way he says it nobody even questions the sexism.
His desk Sargent is absolutely convinced he’s dirty and he has this Beautiful Mind style board in his cabinet drawer pulling absolutely ludicrous connections between Vinny and the Outfit.
One day he just calls Vinny into an interrogation room and goes “Are you in the Mob?!” And Vinny gets all offended and says “Sarge, how can you even ask that? On this, the day of my sister’s wedding?” And the Sarge loses it.
They bust some punk kid for something like vandalism but the kid is clearly just a good kid who made a mistake, and since the owner isn’t pressing charges they let him off with a warning. Vinny gives him a card and puts a hand on his shoulder and goes “Go to this address, ask for Uncle Marco. Tell him Vinny sent you. He’ll take care of ya.” And his partner is like “did you just recruit him???”
But then they go to that address and find out “Uncle Marco” runs a law firm. For domestic violence victims. And Vinny has set up the punk kid (let’s call him Joey) with an internship at the firm.
They see him put a dirty baseball bat in his car after a perp walked on a technicality. They’re real worried until they find out that he’s coaching his nephew’s Little League.
They go through like 20 coffee cups a week because he always smashes one on the ground for dramatic effect
I feel I should stress that Vinny never pushes the metaphor. He doesn’t act up to mess with people. As far as he’s concerned he’s just a normal dude. It genuinely doesn’t occur to him that people think he’s a crook.
I also like the idea that his vocabulary is stuck in the 1930’s. He still calls cars flivvers. He calls baseball Stickball for crying out loud.
“Hey Vinny, what do you do with your free time?”
“I provide a necessary service for the public.”
He volunteers at a soup kitchen.
Actual photo of Vinny the Mangler
He’s been on the force for years and still nobody knows how many siblings he has
Also GOD HELP YOU if you call him “Vincent”. Only his Nona gets away with calling him that.
'You wanna go sleeping with the fishes tonight? ... My daughter's school is having a sleepover at the aquarium, but they need a couple of extra chaperones.'
Brilliant addition
"Got him a pair of cement shoes."
"........Vinny I think they're usually just called *grey*."
"They're cement colored."
I HAVE ONLY SEEN THIS POST IN SCREENSHOTS BUT I FOUND IT ON MY DASH BOARD AHGJFZTJ
my happiness levels have immensely increased, I am emotionally attached to this thread <3
The idea that someone has screenshotted my boy Vinny is insane to me
I’m probably on Pinterest, for goodness sake
My favorite catholic lore is that anyone can make holy water in a pinch but the church puts dumb restrictions on us like ‘do this only if someone needs their last rites’ like I WILL bless this McDonald’s sprite and I WILL enjoy the crispiness of our lord and savior
animonaut
Another bit is that holy water cannot be diluted. When I went to the Vatican the tour guide was explaining this, if you put any amount of holy water into any amount of normal water, the whole bunch becomes holy. This is how they sell Pope Holy Water in the gift shop. This is how I’ve been drinking only holy water for two months now. I am immune to demons.
Homeopathic holy
It’s not actually any amount of holy water- according to the Church, the water has to be more than half holy water by volume. So if you take a half gallon+a few drops of holy water and a half gallon of secular water, you get one gallon of holy water, plus a few drops. You can then add a gallon of secular water to that and then you have two gallons of holy water. We’ve got a couple jugs of Pope Water in the linen closet at my parents’ house, because my mom used the heck out of this loophole after a trip to Italy in 2008. It was more than a decade ago at this point and we still have Pope Water. We no longer have that Pope, but by god do we have his water.
Here’s what a jug of Pope water looks like. Mom measured a fill line on them so that we never accidentally run out and just have old jugs of secular water lying around.
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i don't know how you can "the curtains are just blue! ACAB lol" fucking Death Note of all pieces of media
this is a show for thirteen-year-old boys. the only writers I've seen who are less subtle about what they're going for were fucking Victorians.
@rawr-monster and @eyestumblin asked me to elaborate so here goes:
Death Note is a show with a very clear central premise: no one should have the power to kill others without consequence. Not the cops, not corporations, not the Mob, not civilians, no one.
Even outside of the 2000s-era criticisms of the Japanese justice system, even if you're looking at it in a vacuum, Death Note makes it incredibly obvious what it's trying to say. It starts this off by making it very clear, right out of the gate, that the audience identification character really, really should not have this power.
For Death Note's original target audience, Light is everything you're supposed to be. He's smart, diligent, good-looking, athletic, popular but not too popular. He's The Perfect Middle-Class Japanese Teenage Boy. If you're the kind of edgy, smart Japanese teenage boy who would want to watch an anime supernatural crime drama in the mid-00s? Light is built for you to imprint on like a baby duckling.
...And then the show goes out of its way to point out, in the first proper story arc, that Light is the villain of this piece. From the introduction of L to the end of the Raye Penber/Naomi Misora arc, the show makes it very, very clear that Light is a hypocrite with a massive ego. Sure, he says that he's only killing criminals to make a better world. Sure, maybe he panicked and killed fake-L in self-defense. Sure, maybe the life of Reye Penber and any law enforcement chasing Kira were worth the clear drop in the crime rate. Maybe.
But then Light kills one of the very few unambiguously Good members of the Death Note cast, does so in a smug and cruel way, and the entire scene is framed as tragic in a way that none of the criminal deaths really were. The whole world goes quiet. And Naomi Misora stumbles off to commit suicide. By the end of that arc, even if you'd otherwise be sympathetic to Light- even if you're still rooting for him to get away with it- it's a lot harder to justify what he's doing. He's not just breaking a few eggs to make an omelet- at this point, he's actively happy to kill anyone who gets in his way.
So. Okay. The Perfect Japanese Teenage Boy (TM) can't be trusted with the power to kill indiscriminately. Maybe the problem is just that Light, as a person, is an asshole with impure motives, and if you gave the Death Note to someone who's a better person, you'd be better off. Maybe you could find someone who's motivated by love, and they'd do a better job with that power.
Everyone, say hello to Misa Amane, who is utterly driven by love and devotion, and probably one of the crazier/more evil characters on the show! She'd do anything, no matter how terrible, just because Light told her to do it. She is utterly without remorse, utterly without fear, and utterly driven by a darkly Romantic fanaticism.
Light gets to dodge what's coming to him twice because of Misa and love- once because Misa's love for Light lets him start the Yotsuba arc, and once because Rem's love for Misa becomes a diabola ex machina. In the world of Death Note, love is not a pure enough motive to let you kill indiscriminately - in fact, it makes you worse.
Okay, well, (our hypothetical edgy teenage viewer might say), cLEARLY the problem is that everyone here is too emotional, and you need to be able to detach from the situation to use the power of life and death. Of course you'd kill indiscriminately if you've got feeeeelings about it, but someone who is driven by Logic and Reason? Surely they'd never do anything wrong.
...And then L gets his hands on the Death Note, and immediately starts trying to figure out how to use it to prove that some of the rules in the Death Note are fake and Light is guilty. L's plan is to have a criminal on death row write in the Death Note and wait the 13 days to see if he dies. It's simple. Logical. Effective. It's also extremely reminiscent of the stuff Kira's been doing this entire time, and the implication is that, had L lived longer and used the Note more, he might become No Different.
(I think it's significant that in The Movie, L uses the Death Note exactly once, with himself as the victim, and he turns down the Death Note when it's offered to him. TheMovie!L is an unambiguously heroic character, and therefore, he will not kill without consequences.)
The power to kill without any consequence to yourself corrupts you. It makes you want to use it to solve more and more of your problems. It turns you into a fucking monster, one name at a time. And nothing can stop that process except refusing to use that power. Love cannot shield you. Rationality cannot shield you. Justice cannot shield you.
And every other character who gets the Death Note reinforces that theme. The Yotsuba Group? Big corporations should not get to kill without consequences. Mello? Criminals/genius detectives should not get to kill without consequence. Mikami? The Perfect Japanese Adult is outright sadistic about how he uses the Death Note. And on, and on, and on.
Near outright tells Light, in their final confrontation: "You are a murderer, and this notebook is the worst weapon of mass murder in the world." Using the Death Note is not justice; it's not going to bring about a perfect new world. It's murder, full stop. Light has become a mass murderer, a monster, by killing over and over again.
Death Note has a theme: no one should be allowed to kill without consequences, because it makes you a monster. It is not subtle about that theme. It is very, very blatant, and the only way it could be more blatant is if Near stopped to deliver an Atlas-Shrugged-style monologue about it.
and so seeing people reduce that to 'haha ACAB' gets my goat, because no. No, it's not just ACAB. anyone with the power to kill indiscriminately and without consequence- whether it's a cop, a megacorp, an autistic supergenius, a mob boss, or a perfect audience-insert- would become A Bastard.
this is a show that makes it abundantly clear that there is Symbolism and it has a Point, in the way that only stuff aimed at teenagers that's trying to be Deep can do. how you get through the entirety of Death Note and walk away with "there's no point! a cop's son decides to be the worst person ever! Light is Uniquely Terrible and that's all there is to it!" is fucking beyond me.
I was just going to blithely reblog this, and then I thought of something.
There is a category unmentioned here in the 'people who use the death note' and that category is the Shinigami. Yes, Rem's mentioned in the 'things you do for love' situation, tho she's not the only one who uses the Death Note in a selfless way (even under manipulation).
Because Rem and Gelus both use the Death Note to save Misa, and they both DIE for doing so. And that's an important context here, the Shinigami, the people who are MEANT to use the Death Note, are near-immortal immoral monsters. And the one way for them to be killed? Is to use the Death Note to benefit someone else.
Not only is there no 'good' way to use a Death Note, it was never INTENDED to be used for 'good', just as a way to elongate the lifespans of actual literal monster people in another dimension.
Every once in a while a trans friend group will have a token cis straight guy. Those dudes are almost always extremely cool, compassionate people who have something profoundly wrong with them.
Y'all the point of this is that sometimes queer people can hang out with a cool straight cis dude who is weird. He's not some secret gay or crypto-bigot. Sometimes dudes are just funny.
Being called out except for the fact I’m not cool. My friends only get to put up with me being wrong and barely funny.
this is such a bad idea it’s almost worse than him planning to use nfts to promote #teamseas
the funniest thing about this shitshow is that all the content creators he invited? they’re the guards
all the contestants are random people, competing for money. random people who need money and so they compete in the squid games against other random people who need money, while content creators are the guards.
i have never seen the point of a show fly so high over someone’s head than with squid game and mr beast, nooo media analysis in his brain
How can a human being be so fucking dumb
"Knuckles, that's prison." "Only if you let it be!"
(From Sonic Boom - 2x7 I Can Sea Sonic’s Fear From Here)
If you're strong, you can fly You can reach the other side of the rainbow 🌈🌈🌈 My favorite part of the Sonic CD opening is when Sonic passes through the rivers and create rainbows with the splashed water
An Armarouge carries around the leader Falinks while it is recovering from an injury
Might have these out of order but just a good thread to share.
on one hand this thread makes me want to cry a lot and on the other I’m like, well, my brain is a complex system and now I have a sort of entry point to figure out how it works, so that’s good
I want to reblog this because sometimes finding the word for how your brain works differently is helpful.
this is helpful! but also… it’s all things that can be passed off as ADHD as well. does anyone know of any resources for distinguishing between autism and ADHD? I’ve been looking for some for a long time and haven’t had any luck
so im not a mental health professional, so keep my response to this with a grain of salt, but this is my understanding as someone with adhd who works as a teacher and has learned about these conditions and how they work and has worked with kids with them (and has a brother on the spectrum)
- the core of adhd is problems with executive functioning- this is a series of functions that primarily take place in the frontal cortex of the brain which cover goal-making, prioritization of and completion of tasks, motivation, attention, focus, time management, organization, and impulse control - if your primary difficulties are with these, it’s more likely adhd
- autism revolves around issues of sensory processing, cognitive empathy, communication and language processing; someone with adhd may have issues with sensory processing, but this is more likely to interfere with their ability to focus; they are much less likely to have a full on sensory overload meltdown - in fact I’ve never seen that in a student with adhd but I have seen it in students with autism; there’s also differences with empathy (which I go into later)
- people with adhd and autism have strong relationships with routines and rules but in different ways - in adhd the routines they are used to or they create for themselves can help them remember to complete tasks or manage their time. changes in routine make it more difficult because the accommodation is taken away leading to forgetfulness or disorganization which can be distressing. for someone with autism the routine itself is important and comforting and any break in routine is incredibly distressing - not because of a difficulty in executive disfunction like for someone with adhd, but because of the change itself. an example i can give you is an autistic student of mine always had to get up from his desk and watch when the trolley went by - this routine was necessary to him even though it didn’t help him complete his work in any way - whereas for me, a class time or weekly meeting changing causes me stress because I am more likely to forget it or be late since the routine helps me remember
- adhd & autism can both result in social issues but for different reasons. with adhd the problems usually stem from lack of impulse control, hyperactivity, day dreaming and/or special interests and while autism can include those issues, if you also have difficulty reading & using social cues and communication it’s more likely to be autism not adhd.
- It’s also not uncommon for someone on the spectrum to have a disinterest in socializing or even in having friends - I’ve had multiple students who were probably on the spectrum who were perfectly happy being alone and not having any friends at all, but I feel like that is really rare among kids with adhd who are more likely to have at least one or two close friends and if not, be very unhappy - this isn’t to say no one on the autism spectrum wants friends or has friends or is sad about being unliked, just that if you remember being content being alone as a kid or having a tendency to not really socialize with people, that’s more likely autism than adhd
- both ppl with autism & adhd may have special interests & info dump - main difference would probably be person with adhd has more awareness when ppl are losing interest or think they’re weird but can’t help themselves and a person with autism is less likely to notice or recognize what others think / how they react
- both ppl with autism & adhd may stim (do repetitive movements) but the stimming can differ and be motivated by different things. someone with adhd may use a fidget spinner or move back and forth in an rolling chair or pace or doodle to help them concentrate or because of hyperactivity. if someone with adhd is prevented from stimming it probably would not cause them emotional distress in and of itself: it would likely make it harder for them to concentrate or offset hyperactivity and that could cause frustration but the act itself is actually probably not that important. letting out a kid with adhd for recess early or giving them another outlet would probably work. but for someone with autism it could result in a meltdown or a complete inability to do a task bc the stim itself feels necessary or highly important or comforting. people with autism are also more likely to stim in more obvious or socially “unacceptable ways” like rocking back and forth, making certain sounds, etc. Ofc not all people autism do this, but it can happen in autism but I’ve never seen it in adhd
- procrastination is more of an adhd issue - do you procrastinate and put off things even things you enjoy? like a tv show you keep meaning to watch, a friend you keep meaning to call? do even your special interests get put off sometimes? more likely to be adhd than autism
- organization is more of a problem for adhd; a kid with a super messy backpack and chaotic room who keeps forgetting and losing their homework is more likely to have adhd; a kid who keeps everything in a particular place and is really upset by things being moved or changed is more likely to have autism
- difficulty with speaking or processing language is a symptom of autism which can include not understanding what people are saying, or having moments where you find yourself unable to talk (selective mutism) - some ppl with autism have tendencies like echolalia where they repeat things people say or find it very hard to put thoughts and feelings into words; ADHD does not include these symptoms - in fact this was the major difference between me (kid with adhd) and my brother (kid with autism) - i am a very communicative person who loves language, my brother struggled with expressing himself in words growing up
- students I had with autism had a lot of trouble drawing inferences or reading between the lines but they did very well with facts, For instance, when we would read passages together, they would scan the passages for specific details, but they had a hard time stating the main idea or inferring what was suggested or describing character traits and feelings. I had a student who could rattle off all the presidents and first ladies and lots of facts about classical musicians but couldn’t tell you what a character was feeling in a scene or what the main idea of an article was. If that feels familiar you more likely have autism than adhd
- difficulty with cognitive empathy is a common issue for autism but not for adhd. you might say tactless things if you have adhd but you’re more likely to say dumb shit and regret it due to impulse control whereas with autism you’d be confused as to why people are upset at you or you might simply have difficulty understanding how others think and feel. a common misconception is autistic people are cold or don’t care about others NOT TRUE AT ALL - cognitive empathy doesn’t mean you don’t FEEL for others, it means you have trouble putting yourself in other people’s shoes - adhd does not cause issues with this - it more causes issues with impulse control and keeping up with relationships due to issues with goal-setting, remembering social engagements, etc
people should feel free to add more
Lots of overlap between symptoms of ADHD and Autism, and it is totally possible to have both! A lot of people with one tend to have the other and don’t realize it until much later.
You don’t have to be officially diagnosed to take advantage of resources for Autism – if the community “hacks” and info you see online work for you, use them! You deserve to have the best life possible working WITH your Autism, and not against it.
Same for ADHD folks too - you don’t have to be officially diagnosed, you’re not “appropriating” anything if hacks/tips/tricks help.
If it helps, it helps. Normalizing it helps everyone too.
