#this whole situation is so insane

[starblaster]

Today, an associate of mine from the Prairielands Freedom Fund informed me that a defendant they've been working with was, yesterday, unjustly sentenced to 5 years in prison. He should have received a deferred judgement. Brandon Jones is a black man and he has 3 children.

I don't normally make posts like this, but I want to share this here in the hopes that it will have further reach. Brandon Jones is a member of my community and he does not deserve to be ripped away from his family like this.

Here is a statement from my friends at Prairielands Freedom Fund:

Pictured above from left to right are Brandon Jones, his three children, and his partner, Lily Lindle, at Wilson's Orchard in Iowa City.

On March 25, 2024, "District Court judge sentenced PFF participant Brandon Jones, a Black father, to a five-year prison sentence. We posted bond for Brandon in January after he had pleaded guilty but couldn’t pay his bond. He spent two months in Johnson County Jail, a particularly cruel separation where he was apart from his newborn baby over the holidays.

Brandon’s case is emblematic of the cruel, racist punishments inflicted upon Black folks in our carceral system. Separating Brandon from his family inflicts a layer of violence upon their lives — and it does not do anything for public safety.

We’re committed to rallying behind Jones’ family and his partner Lily, and the best way we can support them right now is with financial support. Lily is now a sole provider — it’s crucial that she gets the economic support she needs.

In September 2023, Brandon’s 8-year old son was suspended and told to walk home, alone and in the cold, from an Iowa City School District elementary school. Brandon went to the school to speak with the principal about the situation. Accidentally bringing his legal firearm with him into the school, Brandon was arrested, charged, and held on a $30,000 cash-only bond.

School staff claim they were threatened by Brandon’s presence in the school, and prosecutors jumped at the chance to make an example out of Brandon. Prosecutors claim this case is about public safety — and yet, their target is a Black father who showed up to his son’s school to advocate for his family. This situation starts and ends with racism. We know our district suspends and expels Black children at higher rates. And the reaction from school staff cannot be extricated from Brandon’s existence as a Black man, advocating for his son, a Black student who was suspended.

Brandon took full accountability for his mistake, as evidenced by his guilty plea. His legal team asked the judge to simply give him probation, allowing him to continue caring for his young family. But today, Brandon was sentenced to five years behind bars.

Brandon’s situation so perfectly epitomizes why abolition matters. Abolitionist principles urge us to think expansively about what safety means. By separating Brandon from his family, they are all less safe — especially when considering economic and emotional safety.

[This] outcome was not what we wanted, but we remain committed to supporting this family, and creating a better system than the one they were victimized by today."

Lily Lindle has started a GoFundMe so that she can receive some assistance with raising and caring for the Jones kids: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-jones-family-in-iowa-city

#this whole situation is so insane #this state has some of the most egregiously liberal rules about carrying firearms #brandon jones was legally allowed to carry and it he's proved that he's a trustworthy gun owner #regardless of your opinions on guns - a white man would never ever have been charged in the first place for this honest mistake #like this is truly fucked up and the county has zero regard for brandon's family whatsoever #iowa tag

[glassedplanets]

a few months ago giffy was like "haha hear me out, what if tattoo au" and then we blacked out and talked about nothing else for like three weeks

#my art #one piece tag #zosan #if you've been here since 2012 then a) i'm sorry. thank you for your service. b) PLEASE have a Sensible Fucking Chuckle with me about this #honest to god the ufnniest possible thing that i personally could have done in the year 2023 #if you're wondering what happened in 2012 then please leave that stone unturned. tghank you #anyways this whole thing brings me INSURMOUNTABLE joy ask me any question about anyone and i am sure i will have an answer #we have meanings or reasons for just about everything visible here and uhhhhh soooo so so so much more (ask me questions.. ask me....) #fitting the general fuckbonkers insanity of one piece into a modern au was both challenging (fun!) and INCREDIBLY hilarious #giffy is the funniest fucking person on the planet for coming up with half the situations that we shoved everyone into #(i did these in.. october i think?? maybe earlier? during the time i limited myself to sketches only) #tattoo au tag

[void-and-virtue]

Lying on the floor in a puddle of my tears and staring blankly at the ceiling as I once again think about all the fucked up, multi-dimensional ways that Kim Dokja, Yoo Joonghyuk and Han Sooyoung encompass the god vs creation and deity vs worshipper dynamics

#it goes all ways between them and stacks on top of each other #there’s like five different angles to it and a secret sixth thing and it makes me go insane #is a god the person who creates or the person who preserves created life by sheer faith alone #the absolute mind bend of a world created for one person alone yet that entire universe kept alive by their imagination and love for it #also the whole situation of love from reader to creator and creator to reader and character as a tool but character as a devoted companion #the way the creation loves and devotes itself to suffer for its god-not-god in turn #ORV is so convoluted it’s like five billion mindfucks stacked in a trench coat #and I love every silly little word of it #ugh #orv spoilers #orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #omniscient reader’s viewpoint spoilers #kim dokja #yoo joonghyuk #han sooyoung

[kagoutiss]

oot zelda doodle i liked :’-)))

#tloz #ocarina of time #oot #zelda #my handwriting is very very bad so i actually added alt text/image description #which i should already be doing with everything anyway. i wanna go thru and update some old stuff with that too #but yeah anyway. all the stuff this series presents about being Fated To Be Something or Fated To End Up Somewhere #even if that thing or place is ultimately Horrible and the consequences primarily occur off camera or post-canon after the Happy Ending #characters who end the story with pretty much nothing and also you find out later they inadvertently cause a far worse disaster #than even the one they gave up everything to prevent #oot zelda’s infinite number of issues and almost guaranteed lack of happiness or normality for the rest of her life #even after ‘fixing everything’ in literally the best possible way she could figure out how. given everything she knew #and then blaming herself for accidentally allowing everything to go wrong in the first place. by trying to fix it #and she was literally just a kid going insane from prophetic visions while simultaneously being disbelieved by everyone around her #except impa but she’s a whole other situation entirely. with a whole other set of baggage on the other end of the spectrum #i just rambled sos so much oops. anyway yea oot zelda #its fine. i throw up when i think about her. its fine

[chryblossomjjk]

#NO LITERALLY #like the way i am treated now vs when i was fat is fucking insane #like it’s insane how many of my friends viewed me as an emotional support mule who has no life outside of them lol #also like how many of them enjoyed me being the fat friend in comparison to them #also trigger warning but i was assaulted as a fat person and i could absolutely tell my #feminist girls girl friends #didn’t take me seriously bc the man who assaulted me was conventionally attractive and i was not #so there’s that lol #also girls girl goes out the window when woc receive opprotunities buttttt #nobody wants to talk about that either lol #the whole avantika situation and ppls response is so telling likeee #if ur feminism doesn’t include all women fuck u genuinely

[redxblueihateloveyou]

This is still one of my favorite scenes, because each time Wu Xie dedicated longest paragraphs in his notes describing Xiaoge's fingers (and the way he moves and etc), I always thought about how thirsty he is, but actually seeing them including this scene, making it so sensual and editing it from Wu Xie's eyes perspective is just... thanks, I could finally say "TOLD YOUUU" xD

#pingxie #wu xie x zhang qiling #wu xie #zhang qiling #dmbj #daomu biji #I really wonder how it is to live with wanting someone so much must be crazy #there's so much longing for love touch and everything in between that I'm at loss at times #reunion the sound of the providence #lost tomb reboot #Zhu Yilong #huang junjie #like I forgot the last time I've gotten so sad about an otp #cause their whole situation is AAAAAAAAAAaaa #like how did they not die yet from this idk #making love for them is truly pure heaven for sure bc this is insane #idk how to describe it in writing even lol

[laesas]

The hands holding yours are not clean either.

VegasPete + Hands || KinnPorsche (2022)

#Disclaimer: I have very complicated feelings about this show and this couple after everything that's happened over the past month #I actually started these in late december for a friends birthday but the colouring ended up so complicated I didnt get it done #and while I'm still untangling how I feel about the fandom and fan culture and the whole situation (tldr: bad sad parasocially betrayed lol #I was so proud of these for my 3rd ever gifset the absolutely insane amount of time I spent on the colouring and masking against shaky shot #like I genuinely had to keyframe adjust about 8 different overlapping layers frame-by-frame for at least 1 of these lol #and perhaps selfishly: I need to post bc I can't bring myself to work on new sets while this was staring back at me every time i opened PS #And I'm proud of it and it meant a lot and even though the shape of the fandom and friendships have changed its still worth something to me #anyway. enough rambling. on to the actual tags lol #VegasPete #kinnporche the series #vegas theerapanyakul #pete saengtham #asiandramasource #asianlgbtqdramas #lgbtedit #vegas kp #pete kp #idk idk idk I feel like this is my one last little love letter to these silly little characters that meant a lot to me #and to the friends that inspired it too #on a lighter note: the caption is an adapted taemin lyric and the colours were inspired by the criminal MV lmao #so like lol its not that deep :') #aaaand post. #bee.gif #kpts

[vamp-a-day]

day 73

no energie :(

#vampire cookie daily #vampire cookie #cookie run #vamp being a freebie in witch's castle feels like a gift from devsis directly to me #i think trying to keep up with all 3 games is starting to hurt me so i'm gonna like. not do that #i'm already 600+ stages into the new one compeltely f2p i'm insane i'm stupid #i do wanna start getting back into doing dailies again i miss this blog #but ough..... with=ch;s caslte #mixed feelings on it as a whole but i just can't be mad at more oppurtunities to see my guys in situations y'kknow #story has been disappointing bc they aren't fucking using the characters they've had for years but whatever #rewriting the sparkvamp special story to actually be good

[judasisgayriot]

we've shared the laughter and the pain... we've even shared the tears... (belated birthday present for @buildarocketboys)

#glee #gleeedit #blam #blaine anderson #sam evans #anni edits #sorry for being a kl*ine hater but i am so over it forever #whatever insane thing sam and blaine have going on in this episode is so much more compelling to me lol #how blaine sings this completely inappropriate for the situation song at sam while like. crying. #how the whole ep is about sam doggedly trying to get blaine to admit his feelings for him when blaine is trying not to. #real straight guy behaviour #anyway stan blam. lol #blam4han

[valdomarx]

reminding me of that short trip where the third doctor and delgado!master swap bodies

the doctor starts a fight in jail, breaks three people's noses, and ends up chained to a wall

while the master enjoys a nice stroll in the fresh air and fixes jo's love life for her

#something something violence as a reaction to untenable circumstances #and the way the doctor is a nasty little gremlin at heart at that's why they're so compelled by the master #when considered along with the torvic situation!!! makes me insane #the doctor was destined to be the violent outcast and only avoided that by throwing their best friend to death itself #anyway there's a whole lot to unpack in this #but also that short trip is delightful and the master just wants the best for jo and that's adorable #threegado #thoschei #doctor who

[flashanimated]

BEEN DOWN THIS ROAD BEFORE,

ALREADY KNOW THIS STORY.

#sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #silver the hedgehog #explanation!! in tags. since i don't think my composition got my exact idea down #but this song is one of my fav sonic (as a character) themes. what it tells us about sonic. and this lyric especially stood out to me #we don't really know much of sonic's past (as of current game canon) or real feelings on most situations. to get them in character themes #like this is wonderful. and for so long i keep thinking about how like #i really truly think. when you really think abt it and consider them all as characters within canon #especiallyyyy the 1998-2000s games. sonic has more similarities to shadow and silver than what's been shown or what most have known #originally this was going to just have sonic and shadow but i always have to throw silver into things #but i wanted to potray a sort of sympathy from sonic as well as sense of understanding #being the hero of the whole world saving it many times and fighting insane things as a 15 year old little animal's gotta be a lot #& anyway i like to take baby game seriously just a little bit

[lorillee]

manfred is such a funny character because nothing he does makes any sense at all. like .ok. you murder the defense lawyer in the case you just finished because he proved you forged some of the evidence and youre mad about it tarnishing your perfect record (despite the fact that you win the trial, somehow,) and get away with it entirely because nobody even suspects you and then for some reason you adopt his son and raise him alongside your own daughter in your own home and mold him in your image and go out of your way to give him opportunities that go far beyond those of his peers and even give him a suit based specifically off of your own iconic suit and literally all he wants is to be like you and to have your approval and over the years he grows out of it a bit but still has far more respect and admiration for you than you frankly deserve and is absolutely 1000% dedicated to your philosophy and then a few days before the statute of limitations on the case about the murdering of his dad is about to run out you concoct this whole insanely convoluted plan to kill the lawyer who got the bailiff acquitted of murdering the dad and frame and then also prosecute your adopted son for it and also hopefully get him indicted for the murder of his own dad too despite the fact that this insane plan could very well end up getting You indicted for the crime because it is. literally. your crime. and bringing it up again is really not in your best interests at all and if you had simply just let it go then nobody ever wouldve been able to prosecute you for it even if any of this did come to light. like why did you do any of this. what

#ace attorney #manfred von karma #lorillee.txt #the von karma-edgeworth family soap opera #character of all time. seriously #hes so funny. hes so funny. hes got this whole thing going on #but he also lets his daughter drag him to the mall to go get pancakes and then wanders all around the stupid place with her #to find his adopted son who went to go chase their dog that ran off and is fine with him donating 5k to this random dog adoption agency #like. to be honest i dont have a single clue whats going on inside his head #forever thinking gabout the anime quote. the #''ive been wondering what made me adopt that boy three years ago when he was so hurt about the loss of his father. #and i think today‚ i finally began to understand how we ended up in this situation. it wasnt because of my guilt. #i simply wanted to see where this path of pain would lead us‚ and how he would eventually develop.'' #WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN . HELLO. YOURE INSANE

[ickypuppi3]

do you ever think about billy’s face as he walks up to the door and then the forced casualness as he talks to neil and how it becomes even more forced when neil says about max

#billy hargrove #neil hargrove #and then he gets nervous and starts moving around #the body language is insane #billy who can put on a performance and wear a mask for absolutely everyone except his dad #anyway #i’m sad about him again #neil’s smile when billy says he doesn’t know where max is #i hate him so so much #i will genuinely never be over how unfair this whole situation was

[dirtytransmasc]

maybe it's because I'm in the "I'm so obsessed and hyperfocused on my little guys I will make any song seem like it's about them even if it couldn't be any father from actually relating to them at all" stage of my Theon and Asha hyperfixation but like...

I feel like 'I bet on losing dogs' by Mitski is about them.

it's about Asha and her relationship with Theon.

he's her baby brother. the baby brother who looked up at her smiled when she had gone in his room, intent on strangling him to stop his cries. he's her losing dog. the dog she keeps fighting for when no one else will. she never gives up on him, not truly, even when he is so clearly doomed, because she loves him, she won't give up on him.

and Theon is, in so many senses, a dog. he's been passed around from owner to owner, home to home, trained and beaten and domesticated, made to behave how his owner at the time sees fit. he's a good dog, a good beaten dog.

and now, in a way, he's Asha's dog. she doesn't want him to be her dog, she wants him to be her brother, and Theon's trying, he really is trying, she knows he's trying, but part of him will always be doomed to be a dog waiting to be hit, waiting for a command, waiting to be trained.

he's her losing dog, she knows it, knows he's doomed, deep down, there's little hope, he'll die a damned dog, but fuck it she doesn't care, he's her blood, her baby, he will be by her side no matter what. she'll always go back for him, she'll always fight for him, she'll always tell him to stay, she'll always give him a chance, she'll always try.

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#(this post is based on the show. I'm half way through season 6) #I don't even know if I'm saying anything coherently but I tried #they make me feel insane. feral. ill. all of the above. #I think- scratch that. I *know* asha is so much softer for theon than she lets on and I don't know how more people don't see that #like yes. she wasn't perfect when it came to handling theon #but like... she was doing the best she knew how to do with the way she was brought up #I mean. the ironborn have a very tough it out or die mentality. they don't do “mental health” (I mean... look at euron. does it look- #like they do mindfulness and processing trauma?) #she only knew how to tough love theon. that was it. she wanted him to get better but didn't know how to actually make it happen #but that doesn't change the fact that she loved him with her whole being. that she hated seeing him in the state he was. that she didn't- #want to make it all better like any big sister would. #because she did! she loved him! he was her baby and he was hurting and she didn't know how to fix it! #she's brash cause thats all she knows. she's tough on him cause what else could she do? she had to have been scared and worried about him. #I think part of her brashness was her trying to cover up just how worried and conflicted and confused she was when it came to his situation #so this post caters to what I think the soft innards of asha greyjoy would be like. she loves her baby brother very much. #I mean. the way she looks at him when she tells him the story of him smiling at her or when she kisses his forehead when he agrees to be- #*theon* again. for her. the love in her eyes is undeniable. #to asha and her losing dog- I mean brother #they're gonna be the death of me #asha greyjoy #theon greyjoy #yara greyjoy #got #game of thrones #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #the second row of images is from the scene where asha (she will never be yara to me. sorry got. asha is the superior name) is telling- #theon the story about him being a terrible baby and how he smiled at her.

[vanyafresita]

do you care about him

#I AM INSAAAAANNEEEEEEE #SHAKES U AND CRIES AND SCREAMS #READ DUNGEON MESHI AND FALL IN LOVE WITH HOLM AND DRAW HIM IN SITUATIONS AND SHOW MEEEEE #I LOVE HIM SOOOO MUCH #BANGS HEAD AGAINST WALL WHY IS HE SOOOOO 💕🧡💓🤍💝💖💜💘💛💚❣️💞 #im trying to draw more traditional art practicing w that thing about only using ink pen and not pencil so i cant erase #it IS working which makes me mad cuz ive avoided doing it for so long bcs im so dependent on erasing and im such a perfectionist #but i need to learn to accept mistakes and LET THEM BE and continue drawing #i need to make 1000 bad drawings in a day instead of one good drawing in a whole month cuz it will REALLY help me improve #anyways smiles PLEASE BE INSANE WITH ME ABOUT HOLM #vanya strawberry flavored #dunmeshi #my art

[suffarustuffaru]

arc 8 otto gets more and more deranged with every appearance i love it 😭😭😭😭 this chapter was a mainly otto centric one which was fascinating!!! URGH i have many thoughts :((( the whole chapter being about “walking with light”….. where otto acknowledges that:

and this is AFTER julius apologizes to otto and otto emphasizes to julius’s face that. yeah. julius is still an enemy. like yeah theyre exchanging more pleasant words now but otto specifically emphasizes that otto isnt a knight. julius isnt a merchant. julius is in another camp. theyre opposites T^T AND THEN roswaal telling otto that opposing emilia and subarus way of thinking is a poison that Will kill him. BUT THEN OTTO says

he cant walk with light meaning he cant see reality and still choose to be idealistic and noble like julius and emilia and subaru even though hes still trying to support emilia and subaru. :,,,))) and he admits that!!! hes still choosing to walk a darker path than them even knowing hes not as strong as others!!! even knowing that emilia and subaru will never agree with him and vice versa!!! hes walking alone, in a way T^T

#rezero #arc 8 spoilers #otto suwen #HES SO INSANE FOR ALL OF THIS BUT I TOO AM GOING INSANE OVER THE IDEA OF ‘WALKING WITH LIGHT’… the whole chapter was about it 😭😭 #like i think its kind of like a ‘if no one will step up i have to’ thing for otto. bc yeah ppl like ram and ros share his opinions on the #vollachia situation but ottos been like. Very active and loud about it. almost like a villain to subaru and emilia akdndnd #which is even more compounded by the fact that he punched subaru hard enough to break his hand???? KASNNS #ottos been trying to do shit on his own ever since he brought the damn book of wisdom to priestella and shit akdndn #hes insane 😭😭 im worried it really will kill him 👍👍 #hes choosing to play the villain to subaru and emilias heroism…… #its just. its kind of sad. he asks himself what the meaning of his existence is if he cant have the #grant the power to have everything he wants. #he wants to protect the people that matter most to him but they want to protect Everyone. and otto thinks its not possible but he still want #s to support them. cries. #ottos pulling an arc 4 subaru here and i am Concerned and Intrigued ☝️☝️ #EDIT: otto did not punch subaru but he punched a wall super hard 😭😭 OTTO. UR INSANE.