Wow, I did not realize how INTEGRAL X-kit was to having a clear functional experience on tumblr. I... legitimately can't use the site.
Hit me up when X-kit is fixed.
Anonymous asked:
Former cop. Just telling the truth here - the good cops who went into the force to help? They don't last long. Joined at 21, wanted to make a good difference. Lived in a town less than 15k people. Mostly domestic disturbance calls, missing pets + kids, wellness checks, so I thought. Peaceful town means you're doing a good job? Nope. If you dont catch criminals you're lazy. Get reamed for being soft. Literally tell you to search out criminals not just find them.Teach you to react first bc (cont.)
(Cont) a split second could mean death. Then teach you how to profile but "we dont profile" wink nudge. So you show up see a man bent over a woman when someone calls, says they heard screaming. React. Guy is raping her. Nope. She was having a seizure. He was her helper. Friend of mine attacked him. Easy mistake when they teach you that. Friends quits bc of guilt. Me? Always got reamed bc I didnt give out enough fucking tickets. Fuck that. "Find curfew breakers. Find lapse insurance." (Cont)
(Cont) I would sit in parking lots running random license plates while all my coworkers ride on people's asses in the middle of the night to trick them into speeding. Its not about upholding the law and arresting criminal. You're a fucking snitch, trying to fin ANY lawbreaker bc you can't be lazy. Then you see some fucked up shit. Little girl goes missing. Find her in a creek, head cracked up on a rock. Animals picked at her for a few days. You get desensitized or you can't do the job. (Cont)
(Cont) so you get numb to screaming and dead bodies and girls crying about boyfriends raping them or you go nuts. Me I thought well this small town they donr have Real Problems so they make me chase down 15 year olds with a cigarette to hand over tobacco tickets. I won't do that so the other guys relentlessly bully me for being a pussy lazy PoS. I go to city with real problems. Same damn thing. "Search for criminals! If you dont find enough you're lazy!" We aren't sitting around til you (cont)
(Cont) til you break the law we are looking for it even if its dumb shit. And then you go someplace big and tell you to look for suspicious things. Blackddues in nice suits are pimps. Black dudes in nice cars are dealers. Black women are crazy and best their boyfriends. Latina lie about being raped to get revenge. That's just how it is. So you say hell no. They eat you alive. If you need therapy you're a pussy. Hostage situation, black dude with knife holding a woman. I talk him down. (Cont)
(Cont) Guy gets arrested. I get pulled into the office and yelled at for NOT shooting him. Saved his life and hers and I got in trouble. Had to file paperwork. Didnt make any friends because they ront trust me. Cops will do drugs on weekends then arrest people for doing the same so they get their "quota" (which wink nudge dont exist). If a cop does something bad and you do the right thing and "rat him out" they will harass you. Found myself relocated when I testified against another cop. (Cont)
(Cont) Go to a different place. Same fucking shit. Cops get paid shit, taught to react first based on assumption, taught to specifically assume racist shit, taught to go OUT of their way to FIND shit, get thrown into an atmosphere of bullying if you dont comply, then get desensitized to shit. If you're a good cop, You won't make it , bc you can't come out of that shit safe. I quit before I was forty. I'm fifty now and work in a mine. Fuck cops.
Ps - former cop - using my niece's tumblr bc she showed me this, which is why I'm using anonymous. Not trying to harass anybody.
Copying anon’s follow up messages above to have the whole story in one place.
Thank you for sharing your experience, anon, and for confirming it -- there are no good cops because good people who become cops either don’t stay cops or don’t stay good people. There’s no other option.
Granted, “who’s more in the wrong” is better discourse than “is Deceit Sanders evil incarnate”, but it’s still discourse. But hey, let me throw my own ring onto the hat.
tl;dr: they both messed up, but Janus already acknowledged he has a long way to go to earn trust, and Roman really needs to start doing something about his habit of lashing out when he feels hurt, so in the context of the episode, Roman’s more “wrong” and in the context of the series, they both have a lot of work to do (though especially Janus).
Incorrect Sanders Sides Quotes (Starring Futurama)
Thomas: Alright, so what's happening to me? And I'll take my answer in any form but a song.
Remus: *already having set up a backdrop and gramophone, and wearing a coconut bra and grass skirt* Aw, you're no fun.
-gets onto a rooftop-
JANUS!!!!!!!
The Cuban authorities spotted the ship for the first time on May 16, near a restricted military zone, west of Havana. They made many unsuccessful attempts to communicate with the crew and finally mobilized three patrol boats to intercept it.
When they reached it, they were surprised to find that the ship was actually a nearly 100-year old steamer identified as the Cotopaxi, a name famously associated with the legend of the Bermuda Triangle.
NOT NOW BERMUDA TRIANGLE
I’m reblogging solely to save this hilarious quote
That said - article was published in 2015, the SS Cotopaxi was identified in 2020 as the “Bear Wreck” off the coast of St. Augustine. Turns out this website is known for satirical articles. (OP has already acknowledged this, but like I said - I need to save this hilarious quote)
28, 20, 11, and 1!
1. What would your dream vacation be?
As cliche as it sounds? Just someplace I haven’t been before, with a friend of mine. (On a related note, Topaz, I’ve never been to Atlantic City?) Or a cruise with a friend of mine! I can’t swim well, but I have many fond memories with boats. Honestly, I have so many friends who are so far away, so a trip somewhere new with a chance to hang out with them sounds really ideal!
11. Do you want to have a family when you get older?
I mean, I would like to adopt some older kids one day! Marriage would be just for convenience though. So, no spouse, but kids would be in the cards with any luck.
20. What’s your favorite childhood book?
The Outcast of Redwall! It was the first Redwall book I ever read (though it belonged to my sister at the time - the first one I owned was Taggerung). I still feel really bad for Veil and disagree with the ending, but I remember it a lot better than most other books from my childhood (admittedly I’m declaring my cutoff to be around age 11 because that’s when I began obsessively collecting Poe and other horror writers, and I feel that miiiight be a slightly weird answer - but if I must, then the real answer is this anthology of 13 horror novellas. Bunch of different styles that I think influenced what I consider to be ‘good writing’).
28. What is your favorite day of the week?
I have a weird love-hate relationship with Thursday, See, every other Thursday, I have to wake up early - but I wake up early so I can go to a cat shelter to volunteer! And these cats, the vast majority of them are so, so lovely and deserve all the attention in the world. Runner-up would be Wednesday - I have the house to myself for a significant amount of time. I can sit wherever I want and not have to worry about volume on whatever youtube video I have running in the background for whatever it is I’m doing.
Hot take: the biggest difference between a “Dark” Side and a “Light” Side doesn’t come down to the “goodness” or the “badness” of the traits, but in the Side’s ability to compromise.
The Sides in general have a hard time compromising due to their inherent nature - they are literally full-on personifications of an aspect or two. That said, especially in earlier videos where they weren’t as stressed about being recognized and listened to, Patton, Logan, and Roman especially have always been pretty down to hear each other out.
It's time for my favorite team of villains... Team Bleck!
reblog and put in the tags something that you were looking forward to and can’t do it because of coronavirus
Blame (or thank) @fandom-freak-420 for introducing me to the wonder of Bender quotes applied to Deceit.
Guys, gals, and nonbinary pals. If you’re in the Markiplier community, and love Dark, I have a game suggestion for you
Anatomy by KittyHorrorShow
Sounds a little odd, yes? But trust me on this, this game has a lot in common with Dark lore-wise, and would make you think about Dark in a somewhat different light. The game itself has nothing to do with Dark, or Mark even; it’s just a really well made horror experience about a house. There’s just one jumpscare, and it’s not cheap or random, but actually makes sense with the story and style of the game. The fear you feel, it’s all atmosphere. You do have to play it several times to get the full story.
Ever since I found out about it I’ve been wanting Mark to play it. I think it’d be a great let’s play. Heck, I encourage everyone to play it. It’s just 3 bucks on their itch.io page.
So uh I remembered my vague ideas for a GF AU still existed and dug up the coversation I had with @honeygemtrashbag
Though, currently, pondering the idea of Deceit, instead of being a brother to Patton, would be the Shapeshifter (albeit with a far different and less evil moral compass).
(Transcript below Read More)
#sanders sides au#deceit sanders#roman sanders#remus sanders#virgil sanders#logan sanders#patton sanders#thomas sanders#prinxiety mention#intrulogical mention#gravity falls#bill cipher#tag anyone unsympathetic and you'll be catching unsympathetic!FHF#except Bill I guess but you get my meaning#janus sanders
Dress-Up
Wherein Thomas has more influence over the Sides than he realizes.
(Warnings: uhhhhhh dodging questions? Could be gaslighting if you stretch the definition. Reference to forced silence for like two sentences. Minor angst)
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“Until next time, guys, gals, and nonbinary pals. Peace out!”
Thomas smiled as he turned off the camera. His Sides had already left, and, honestly, it had been a fairly productive and positive conversation. All he had to do now was prepare the video for uploading.
“Thomas.”
Thomas was not ashamed to admit he’d jumped at the unexpected voice. He turned to see Deceit stepping out from the shadows beside Patton’s space.
Ah. His Sides, excluding Deceit, had already left.
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URGENT! If you're in Colorado, please, please be careful! If you know any trans men or transmasc people who might be in Colorado soon, please let them know about this. If you know any trans or LGBTQ+ groups, community centers, etc. in Colorado, make sure they're aware!
If you're cis, it's encouraged that you reblog this. Just spreading the word is a great opportunity to be an ally.
WTF
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NOT KIDDING GUYS BE VERY CAREFUL HERE ARE SOME SCREENSHOTS OF CONVERSATIONS THIS DICK HAD WITH AN LGBT ACCT ON IINSTAGRAM
Be very very very very very careful my dudes and please stay safe
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rb this with ur opinion on this shade of pink:
This is magenta, and not pink. Unlike pink, magenta doesn’t actually exist. Our brain just invents magenta to serve as what it considers a logical bridge between red and violet, which each exist at opposite ends of a linear spectrum.
TL;DR this color is fake (and also I hate it)
Wait til you learn about Stygean Blue
Your brain is a badly-designed hot mess of bootstrapped chemistry that will tell you that all kinds of shit is happening that has no correlation to physical reality, including time travel. It just makes things up. Your brain is guessing about what’s happening when your eyes saccade, what’s happening in your blind spot, and what the majority of the visible light spectrum looks like, and you don’t know it’s happening because it doesn’t aid your survival to become aware that a lot of what you see is fake.
The human eye only has three types of color sensitive cones, which detect red, blue, and green light. Your brain is making up every other color you perceive.
Let’s have a little fun with that thought. This is the visible spectrum of light.
You will of course note that yellow is on the chart. Yellow has a discreet wavelength, and is therefore a distinct physical color. But we can’t see it.
“Sorry, what the fuck?”
What we call yellow is just what our brain shrugs and spits out when our red and green cones are equally stimulated. We have light receptors that can pick up on the physical spectrum of light we call yellow: that’s why yellow things don’t just look like moving black blocks to us. But your brain has no fucking idea what the color yellow looks like.
Some animals have eyes that can perceive the color yellow! Goldfish have a yellow cone in their eyes. If they could talk, they could tell us what yellow looks like. But we wouldn’t be able to understand it.
What your brain actually sees of the color spectrum:
We can measure the wavelength of light, so we know that when we see ‘yellow,’ we are seeing light in that 550-ish nanometers range. But we don’t have a cone in our eyes that can pick that up. Your brain just has a very consistent guess about what color that wavelength of light could be. We decided to name that guess ‘yellow.’ We can’t imagine what yellow really looks like any more than a dog can imagine the color red.
Here’s the funny thing: your brain is never perceiving just one photon of light at a time. Something like 2*10⁸ photons per second are hitting your retina under normal conditions. Your brain doesn’t individually process all of them. So it averages them out. It grabs a bunch of photons all coming from the same direction, with the same pattern, and goes, “yeah, that cup is blue, fuck it, next.”
That’s how colors blend in our eyes. So sure, if a photon of light with a wavelength of 550 nanometers bounces into our eyes, we see what we call “yellow.” But if we see two photons at the same time, coming from the same object, one of which is 500 nms and the other of which is 600 nms, your brain will average them out and you will still see yellow even though none of the light you just saw was 550 nms.
So how does magenta factor into this?
Well, as we’ve just established, when your brain sees light from two different slices of the visible light spectrum, it will try to just average them together. Green plus red is yellow, fuck it. If it’s more red than green, we’ll call that ‘orange.’ Literally who gives a shit, we’re trying to forage over here. There are bears out here and it’s so scary.
What happens if you take the average of blue and red light, which we perceive to be magenta? What’s the centerpoint of that line?
Fucking green.
Hey, that’s not gonna work? We live on a planet where EVERYTHING IS GREEN. If something is NOT green, that means it’s either food, or a potential source of danger, and either way your brain wants you to know about it.
So your brain goes, WHOOPS. Okay - this is fine. We already made up yellow, orange, cyan, and violet. We’ll just make up another color. Something that looks really, really different from green.
And so it made up magenta.
So, physics-wise, is magenta “real?”
No; there’s no single wavelength of light that corresponds to magenta. But you’re rarely seeing only a single wavelength of light anyway. And even when you are, every color other than RGB is a dart thrown on the wall by your meat computer. This is the CIE Chromaticity Diagram:
Explaining this thing is a little more than I want to take on on a Saturday morning, but I’ve included a link above that goes into it a little more. The point is that only the colors that actually touch the ‘outline’ of the shape actually correspond to a specific wavelength of light. All of the other colors are blends of multiple wavelengths. So magenta isn’t special.
Given that color is just a fun trick your brain is playing on you to help you find food and avoid danger, is magenta real?
Yeah, absolutely. Or at least, it’s just as real as most of what we see. It’s what we see when we mix up blue and red. It would be disastrous from a survival standpoint to perceive that color as green, so we don’t. Because it’s not green. Light that’s green has a wavelength of around 510 nm. Stuff that’s magenta bounces back light that is both ~400 and ~700. Your brain knows the difference. So it fills in the gap for you, with the best guess it has, same as it does with your blind spot.
The perception of color exists within your brain, and your brain says you see magenta. So you see magenta.
I know I’ve seen people saying that Deceit would be a big fan of Bill Cipher but consider the following (spoilers but if you haven’t watched Gravity Falls yet - you really should):
- Bill’s lies backfired on him in a huge way - first Ford shut down the portal and canceled the project, and the deception that brought about Weirdmageddon also ended in Bill’s untimely death.
- Sure he’s a deceitful and manipulative dude, but in the end he failed and died for it.
- Stanley Pines used deception to keep his brother’s house/portal from being lost and to get money.
- Stanley Pines lied to his grand-niece and grand-nephew to try to keep them away from the more dangerous aspects of Gravity Falls (and, considering some of the stuff we’ve seen and the Journals hint at? Overall, he was doing a good job).
- Being a liar and conman does not prevent Stanley Pines from caring about those around him and trying to keep them safe.
- Stanley Pines tricked the FBI long enough to escape to his house.
- Stanley Pines stole and cheated and lied and, through all that, activated a piece of technology well outside most people’s comprehension and got his brother back.
- Stanley Pines conned Bill Cipher and, without him, Bill Cipher would’ve destroyed our dimension.
So I’d like to propose: Deceit’s favorite character is Stanley Pines because he’s a liar and a conman who does everything in his power to protect and help his family, and because in the long run, he’s damn good at it.
cherry-e-bomb
he likes Bill’s style though. Yellow and black with a classy hat is a great look
Fair enough, he totally does (and it totally is).
I know I’ve seen people saying that Deceit would be a big fan of Bill Cipher but consider the following (spoilers but if you haven’t watched Gravity Falls yet - you really should):
- Bill’s lies backfired on him in a huge way - first Ford shut down the portal and canceled the project, and the deception that brought about Weirdmageddon also ended in Bill’s untimely death.
- Sure he’s a deceitful and manipulative dude, but in the end he failed and died for it.
- Stanley Pines used deception to keep his brother’s house/portal from being lost and to get money.
- Stanley Pines lied to his grand-niece and grand-nephew to try to keep them away from the more dangerous aspects of Gravity Falls (and, considering some of the stuff we’ve seen and the Journals hint at? Overall, he was doing a good job).
- Being a liar and conman does not prevent Stanley Pines from caring about those around him and trying to keep them safe.
- Stanley Pines tricked the FBI long enough to escape to his house.
- Stanley Pines stole and cheated and lied and, through all that, activated a piece of technology well outside most people’s comprehension and got his brother back.
- Stanley Pines conned Bill Cipher and, without him, Bill Cipher would’ve destroyed our dimension.
So I’d like to propose: Deceit’s favorite character is Stanley Pines because he’s a liar and a conman who does everything in his power to protect and help his family, and because in the long run, he’s damn good at it.
OP has some solid points.
However, you know who would love Bill Cipher?
Remus
I mean, all the disturbing chaos he causes really embodies Remus, don’t ya think?
You’re right and you should say it.
Boy, Remus would’ve had a blast during Weirdmageddon, wouldn’t he have? Especially if he was partying up in the Fearamid. He’d just look at their version of Spin the Bottle and be like: