I write fanfiction

Clark looks up from his computer at the new intern. “Oh, no,” he says. “You caught me.”

“Clark, you pull this shit every time, man,” his desk neighbor Steve says. “Shut the fuck up.”

“No, the kid’s right, I’m Superman,” Clark says. He gets out of his seat and cracks his back out. “I guess we’re gonna have a superhero fight.”

“Clark, sit back down.”

“Nope. Superhero fight.”

“Clark if you don’t sit the hell back down and finish your article by lunch I am going to tell Perry on you.”

Clark points at the intern. “You get off easy this time, buddy,” he says, and sits back down. 

“So…” the intern says, very lost. “Uh…”

Intern: “Ahahahah Superman in Kansas tilling the fields at superspeed, that’s a good one. What, if the tractor breaks down, do you just pick it up and take it back to the barn?”

Clark: “Nah, between my ex-ray vision and my heat vision I can generally find whatever the problem is and do a spotweld if necessary so long as I know where to get the parts - once had to nip over to South Korea because I didn’t want to wait 6 weeks for the ship to get there.”

Intern: “Bahahaha classic, Clark you are so funny! Superman fixing tractors with his heat vision, oh that’s a good one.”

If any normal citizen does this to anyone it’s felony aggravated assault.

If a law enforcement officer did this, they would have to write up a report detailing the justification for pulling a weapon or any “use of force” against any defendant for any reason.

But lawless Trump/Bondi agents taunt innocent Americans with lethal force and extreme prejudice.

Without due process for rapists, all it takes is the government saying you're a rapist and suddenly you can be guilty of whatever they want. It won't matter, because you don't get your day in court anymore. You don't get to argue for your defense, or know what evidence they have against you, or have a lawyer to help you understand the legalese and what options you have, or ANYTHING.

We don't even need to say that women lie about rape to any significant degree (because statistics show they so rarely do), because the government could just make up a woman and claim she made a report. You wouldn't know, because you don't get due process and therefore do not get to confront your accuser.

I don’t choose my clients, but I Chose to not choose my clients. That’s the point. The point is it’s everyone who needs the help, no matter what they’ve done, no matter what they’re accused of doing.

If I chose my clients, that means deciding who is worthy and who is not, and I am simply not interested in making that choice. I refuse to place one life above another. That’s what cops and fascists and racists and oppressors do.

We need to make sure the POLICE aren't breaking the law, acting without cause, etc, BEFORE that "magic box" proves their guilty. because everything a cop does is against an innocent person; that's what innocent until proven guilty MEANS. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS PREEMPTIVE JUSTICE.

Also, and I struggle to articulate this is concise way: part of having an attorney is having someone who is fighting for you. Even if you lose, it is someone who was on your side through the process, asserting your rights, asserting your perspective - asserting your humanity.

The entire u.s. criminal legal system (the entire u.s. legal system if we're being honest) is rotten to the core. And part of that is its inherent function as a blunt hammer against the "problem" of "crime." (both in quotation marks because those are both socially- and legally-constructed ideas that do not match on to actual harm). It does not and cannot treat the people who are caught up in as human beings. (That includes any victims of crimes being prosecuted, by the way.)

Even in the situation with the 100% magic box of determining guilt or innocence (and cannot emphasize how much there is not such a box), the person who committed a crime is still a human being, a person with full inferiority. They deserve not to have horrific acts done against them, either preemptively or in retribution. Not because what they have or haven't done, but because they are a person.

Sokka: Your family's good at that. War.

Zuko: Hey! Not everyone in my family's like that.

Sokka: I know, I know, you've changed.

Zuko: I meant my uncle.

YOUR UNCLE, ZUKO? Your uncle, THE DRAGON OF THE WEST? Not good at war? Arguably, of your family, he is the best at war of your entire fucking family. Maybe he's not a warmonger anymore (since, you know, tasting loss for the first time and understanding Imperialism Bad) but he's very very very good at it, actually!

The content wasn't anything special. I made cookies, I saw this flower, my cats did this. He likes trucks and machinery so I scoured redbubble for anything related to machinery and got a giant batch of machine postcards. Whenever I traveled, I'd hunt down a postcard for him.

My second nephew turned four this year, and I started sending him postcards as well. Both of them like Pokemon now, so mostly it's been double Pokemon postcards every week. I don't hear much from them, or my sister, so I just generally hope they're enjoyed and try to remember to mail them before Sunday.

However. This week my mom informed me second nephew likes the postcards SO MUCH he brings them into daycare to show around. And when I shared that with my sister, she told me not only does he bring them into daycare, he sleeps with them at naptime.