Cloudmarsh

A shocking incident has occurred at Shipshape Aquarium! During one of the aquarium's "Swashbuckler Spectacular" shows, one of the performers and orca trainers, Azura Summers, was killed by Ora Shipley, the very orca she worked with daily. The killer whale is set to be put down, and our condolences go to the loved ones of Summers.

its organs are CALZONES

with garlic angel hair

OMG MY NEW SHOES CAME :3 ignore my ugly house arrest ankle bracelet. haha

"all of them inshallah"

Bird from Daytona USA

?????? Bro????? She’s eating lunch out of a collector’s item depicting the woman she killed??

But I think there's something to be said for Glory Girl being that flavor of dismissive with police brutality, and Sofia being a very distinct character with a different flavor of brutality. Had she been swapped with Madison, being superficially similar with Glory Girl (but canonically impotent) and the way they both get away with things, I think it would have detracted from both characters and their respective plotlones.

also glory girl's writing sucks too. the thing where she goes after nazis is not even remotely comparable to who police actually target. it's portrayed in this insufferably ambiguous way where the issue is supposed to be that she's doing violent vigilante justice and not that she's, y'know, abusing her position of power to brutalize ppl it's considered acceptable to hurt. it's just flat incoherent and inaccurate. which is why in my hypothetical imaginary sophia/madison swap i alter glory girl so that she's still going after nazis out of some vague philosophy that "my job is to punch people with the force of a truck until it improves society + nazis are bad and make society worse = i should be allowed to go punch nazis and surely even if it's a bit off the books the prt will let me because heroes do off the books things all the time." and then she does actually get in trouble for it because nazis are, generally speaking, something policing structures Uphold. & subsequently falls sort of obliviously in line because she can't get over the idea that Cops Good Villains Bad and meting out punitive justice on behalf of the state will still fix things even if they're not letting her go after the really bad guys. which might be a dumb writing choice i dunno but i like the idea of madison illustrating the very straightforward brutality and glory girl demonstrating how like. well-intended liberals are also responsible 4 enacting violence from the state and just quietly disagreeing in her head doesn't actually change the material harm the totally-not-racially-biased ABB crackdown she's participating in while E88 gets the kid gloves is doing

yes, the cop who is explicitly portrayed as using her power as a cop to enact unchecked violence upon people is in fact supposed to represent police brutality. the text's fixation on depicting her as hating her job & wishing that she were an independent vigilante are part of its failure to portray police brutality even remotely accurately--it's extremely common for mediocre liberal criticisms of police brutality (or other systematic forms of violence) to portray the violence as a result of individual bad apples within the system who "don't want to do the job right" or "are trying to be vigilantes," with the underlying implication being the assertion that if we got rid of the "bad apples" the "real" cops who "do their jobs right" would conduct themselves appropriately and the issue of police brutality would be solved. (because the author can't grasp that police brutality is a result of the system functioning as intended rather than as just an error that could be fixed to create an idealized policing system.) the book doing a bad job at depicting how and why police brutality happens doesn't mean that it's not trying to depict policy brutality

Smug like you wouldn’t believe

came across this post and got seized with a desperate need

The Triumvirate

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