#what the public defender

[whatthepublicdefender]

When you make a plea offer to the baby-DA... and they turn down your offer with an email citing the "violent" facts of the case and the danger your client poses to the community... and then the baby-DA ends the email with an offer better for your client then the one turned down.

#whatthepublicdefender #what the public defender #criminaldefense #criminallaw #criminal lawyer #criminal defense #anonymous #ask

[ef-1]

Everyone moved on but I stayed there

#sick to my stomach again. i miss him so much im about to end it all. who else was like him #like. he saw daniel struggling and would not be dissuade. all throughout 2022. scathingly defending daniel in public. #comforting him in private. reaching out to daniel again and again and again #showed up to daniels test. rested his head on the halo and encouraged him. when daniel got the seat he said #I AM VERY HAPPY FOR DANIEL BECAUSE I LOVE HIM #LIKE I DONT KNOW WHAT WOULD MAKE IT MORE DEVASTATING. IF THE EMPHASIS WAS ON WHICH WORD #f1 #daniel ricciardo #sebastian vettel

[lilaccatholic]

Complex feelings about copyright and Disney's appalling ethics aside, it does unsettle me how quickly people jump to make and monetize the most unnerving, depraved content imaginable about characters created for children the second it hits the public domain

#lilac rambles #lilac goes to the movies #look you don't have to defend yourselves to me i don't really care what you do #so please don't flood my inbox with all this stuff about why disney sucks and why gross stuff is good actually #im not here to fight #i get it. they suck and this feels vindicating #i just get unnerved watching people do terrible things to things created for children the second they can #maybe it's bc i don't see anyone making anything...idk...nice? and like...not freaky? #like it really feels like 'haha we're going to defile this creation bc it makes us feel good to destroy something created for families' #bc if it had just been the case with mickey id get it yknow #but people did this with sweet old pooh bear too #but maybe that's bc he's now a disney property idk #like maybe as other famous characters come into the public domain people won't do the same things #and honestly that will make me feel a lot better

[dykeseinfeld]

shitty majoring in gender and sexuality focused on masculinity studies and team sports which is super interesting and cool (and a space where it can actually be refreshing to have male voices) and it may be tempting to read the double major in poli sci as focusing on gender equality and lgbt rights but there's a world where he focused on cold war tensions and how the soviet union and the united states used sports as an arena for competition, sports as an arena of political protest and defining piece of the nation state in itself, also the exploitation of athletes across racial gender and class divisions in college and in professional leagues

#what i'm saying is. we assume he becomes a public defender or some shit but. shitty becomes a sports attorney and makes. a lot of money #was trying to imagine a shitty who isn't annoying as hell in class and ended up creating one who gets to work with jack #omgcp

[dadbodbensisko-moved]

what she says: im fine

what she means: In the six episode arc at the beginning of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 6, Odo betrays his friends and briefly collaborates with the dominion. Kira has given up on Odo and insists that he can't help them. However, Quark maintains that Odo is not a collaborator and that he can still help them. Quark continues to believe in Odo even when Odo doesn't deserve it. He is likely the only person in the galaxy who loves Odo unconditionally, but Odo is too blinded by his infatuation with Kira to see it.

#ds9 #star trek #quark #odo #quodo #deep space nine #odo is also the autism so when quark is like “i hate you (no i dont)” odo might not get it? #after ds9 is liberated i headcanon quark defends odo's actions to ppl all the time in public but if odo tries to talk to him hes like #“babygirl youre yuckgusting” #bc he actually is pretty mad #do i like quodo as an unrequiented thing or what idk #but maybe odo starts reciprocating bUT ITS TOO LATE #or is it

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

The whole discourse about the privacy/secrecy/support thing has been sitting with me for a few days (I mean other than it always does to a certain degree) thanks to all the excellent discussion happening and I know I'm not saying anything that hasn't been said a million times before, but I think what we're seeing and what we're going to learn (e.g. from TTPD) is that it wasn't just the support issue, but how it was shown/handled.

We've all gone out of our way to show that introversion =/= lack of support. Someone can be shy, reserved, etc. and still show up for their partner, whether in public or at home. To chalk any of the differences up to the clash between introversion and extroversion is unfair to folks who count themselves among either tbh.

@thisisctrying said something the other day that hit the nail on the head about how if that support had been offered in private, there very well may not have been a Joever to begin with, or at least not at this point in time. (Sorry for loosely paraphrasing, and for namedropping you! Long time listener, first time poster.)

If this were a case where the "shy" partner said, "I am really uncomfortable with the spotlight personally and do not want to court it, but I will support you in your ambitions and offer you whatever you need to make them happen and make the glare bearable," I suspect that would have gone a long way to making Taylor feel seen and comfortable in pursuing her goals in the way that she now has. Again, that might have been more akin to the balance that seemed to have been struck around 2019 from what we can see, but even speaking in a general sense, there are lots of couples out there, celebrity or not, that have similar approaches where there are highly driven people and busy careers involved.

(A famous example being Dolly Parton's marriage. Tbh I know next to nothing about her and Carl, but she's always heralded as an example in this regard, because her husband is famously uncomfortable with the spotlight and hasn't accompanied her to public events in decades, but she's said that she never minded that because that was always work to her, and what was important was that he supported her in pursuing all her career goals and basically ensured she had a place to call home to return to at the end of the day.)

We're kind of in a brave new world with her current relationship because it felt like, at least at the start, we were maybe watching her figure out her boundaries in real time as to what she was comfortable with or not and adjust accordingly. Like so many have said, I fully believe the extreme privacy thing was initially driven by herself and her experiences in 2016, and she needed that quiet time to recover from all of the things and figure out how to exist in the world again.

Stating the obvious, it seemed like eventually privacy was equated with secrecy, turning the relationship and the celebrity into the elephant in the room and something to never be spoken of to the outside world. People are free to choose whatever works best for themselves and their relationships, and for some the separate public lives might work, but the “kept me like a secret but I kept you like an oath” theme is all over her work and it’s clear that it’s a sore spot for her, because she’s been made to feel shame just for the life she leads so many times in the past.

What I’m trying to say is that it’s pretty obvious something Not Great was happening behind the scenes, which didn’t just amount to “she wanted to be a public celebrity and he wanted to be a private hermit.” (Also, in case anyone forgot, this is a person who also chose a public-facing career who also has to engage in press for it, but I digress.) As her career reached new heights post-folklore, if she had the support at home to do all the things without judgment and with encouragement, and in turn offer the same support to her partner, she may have very well lived just fine with that, not unlike Dolly Parton’s case.

By reading between the lines in all the press since, as well as comments on tour and general ~vibes~ with TTPD teasers, it seems like one of the issues was that that was likely not the case. There was all the stuff that we saw — the reticence to acknowledge each other in the media (particularly on one side), the lack of public support even at events at which they were both in attendance for their respective jobs, the great lengths they went to not to be photographed together at events they attended yet no problem taking pictures with other friends and coworkers, the jobs that separated them, the withdrawing from the public even for work accomplishments, etc. Which could all be manageable if a couple chooses to do so together and are not inherently a sign of trouble in themselves.

But what we’re seeing now I think is a reflection of the things we weren’t seeing then, and it seems to indicate some very deep hurt. (I know, call me Captain Obvious.) And like so many have been saying, it feels likely that that part of that hurt is rooted in that very lack of private support where a person would expect it from their partner. Obviously as a Taylor fan blog I’m going to be more inclined to understand her side of a story, but tbh, it’s also because… this is sooooooo common, and something I’ve experienced in my friend group. (@taylortruther is right when she says most breakups are the same one way or another lol.)

One partner is resentful of the other’s success, or resentful that the other’s priorities begin to evolve as new experiences unlock new goals, or feels the other’s ambitions are not worthy of pursuit, and coupled with perhaps their own struggles in the same domain, it’s easy to see where that can chip away at the other partner’s morale and faith in the relationship. I know I’m just speculating here, but I also don’t think it’s totally unfounded. (Again, because a) I’m picking up what she’s putting down and b) it happens to sooooooo many women even among us dull normals.)

With all the pointed mentions about how much Taylor feels supported in her current relationship and how she in turn loves to offer the same show of support to not only her partner but other loved ones, how she’s stepped out more in the last year to a whole host of events, how she’s mentioned feeling like she locked herself away for years and she’s just proud of her partner and happy she can show up for him even if the chaos around it is unsettling, it paints a picture of what perhaps was happening before last year.

To feel like you’re all alone in carrying the weight of the relationship (or burden of it), of twisting yourself into knots to accommodate the other person’s boundaries (or insecurities) but not feeling reciprocity for your own has to be so painful. (The idea that it may have been even darker and to have a partner not only be unreceptive to your own needs but even perhaps resentful/dismissive/belittling of them is even more painful to think of. I guess we’ll find out when TTPD comes out if that was the case, too.)

At a certain point, that lack of acknowledgement will force your hand to be able to reclaim yourself. And it feels like the further removed Taylor in particular is from it, the more she moves from being sad about the life she felt she gave up by leaving, to angry at the life she felt she was giving up by staying. Especially being in a relationship now where it seems like everything comes much easier, where she can be open about the person she’s with and show up for them, all the stuff that seemed as challenging as climbing Mount Everest in her past is nothing more than a molehill at best in her current life.

TL;DR: I don’t think it’s privacy that inherently spells doom for a celebrity relationship like this; it’s the mutual support and respect that does. If Taylor had felt that in the later years of her previous relationship, I think we could be seeing a different, though not necessarily unfulfilled, person right now in 2024, who’d be happy on tour but whose personal life would look a little different. But it seems like by losing that support she lost parts of herself, and we’ve seen her reclaim that in spades in the last year, and perhaps to degrees she didn’t even realize she could from before all the Bad Stuff started happening in her young adulthood.

I know this was extremely long-winded and unnecessary, especially about total strangers we only know through scraps fed through the media, but I just always bristle at this idea that issues like these boil down to “personality differences,” as though one person wants to live in a city and the other on a remote island, or some shit like that. The whole support (and gender tbh) issue is one that’s just very close to my heart because again, I have seen it play out with so many of my friends in long term relationships and marriages and I just think people in relationships (and women in particular in some circles) deserve better than to feel like they’re being, well, tolerated.

#thisisctrying and taylortruther sorry for tagging you two! #can remove if needed! #but you guys made me think a lot #this was inspired by a conversation i had with a friend the other day #where she relayed an argument she had with her partner #who basically felt slighted that he wasn’t getting acknowledgement for all the housework he does — which is. just. the dishes #and she was like ‘wow congrats you’ve done the dishes — i do every other fucking thing to keep this household afloat in ways you see #and don’t see and i never ask for praise because it’s just stuff that needs to get done because that’s how you support your family’ #and it just reminded me that some partners (and a certain kind of man in particular) just… think their struggles take precedence #when their partners drown in them everyday but keep things afloat out of necessity and are never recognized or supported for it #(my friends have shitty husbands/boyfriends can you tell lol) #long post #again the way i just feel like i know the vibes of ttpd in my bones are 😵‍💫 #i feel like i have a lot more thoughts but I’m trying to be more gracious and less parasocial so #also just want to again defend the introverts of the world by reiterating that being introverted does not mean unsupportive #being a shitty partner does though! #writing letters addressed to the fire #it’s also just like… i feel like if Taylor had had even a modicum of the support in private and even public she needed #she’d probably still be with you know who and wouldn’t have considered leaving let alone doing it #because it would have felt like enough and like it was what was needed for both of them #whereas we’re seeing a completely new side of her open up now because this is the first time she’s ever had that support from a partner #in her adult life at least #and it’s like it’s opening up things she didn’t know she needed or wanted

[pikkuisesti-paskaa]

I got a very specific dp x dc twin au idea. And i dont have friends in the fandom so to tumblr it goes

So a very basic danny was raised in the loa and eventually escapes to amity park and gets adobted and becomes phantom and does his thing.

A new ghost shows up and causes everyone to have a number above their head. Its not just any random number. Its the number you feel the most negative/insecure/stressed/ashamed over. It could be your height, the amount of debt u have or like a million of other things. For some people its fairly easy to figure out and some seem really random. Maybe the ghost goes around revealing what the numbers mean for people.

Dannys number seems kinda random but he absolutely refuses to tell anyone what his number means and he is scrambling to get rid of the ghost before it gets revealed. After all it doesnt really matter if his kill count gets revealed as fenton or phantom, the life hes built for himself would be in shambles.

#dpxdc #no idea how this would play out #i just liked the idea of dannys friends being baffled over this random ass number making danny into a wreck #also like its his past haunting him but not because the league found him or anything #its just the most unfortunate ghost to have to fight for danny specifically #idk what the number for danny would specifically be but id think its in the double digits for this one #imagine it getting revealed very publically as phantom #and he has to be there like #for the record every single one of those was BEFORE i died and became a ghost #or as fenton #like how the hell is he even supposed to defend that one #anyway if this idea interests anyone as much as it did me then feel free to use as a prompt or smth

[oceanwithouthermoon]

https://x.com/d3kutism/status/1741579841764475157?s=46

it should be illegal to be this fucking stupid so loudly and confidently omg..

mfs on the internet preach about "media literacy" yet they completely gloss over the fact that the only damn things that kusuo "canonically" is are a tsundere, an unreliable narrator, and a fucking liar LMFAOOO.. babe thats like basic reading comprehension, im sorry..

EDIT: it should go without saying not to send a person hate just because of a silly post like this one(+i dont have any reach anyway so im sure it wouldnt happen, but i wanna say this nonetheless lol) but i would just like to say that i just checked and realized that this person is 15 years old, so like... yeah, too young to be arguing with grown people on the internet. dont take this too serious or send this person hate pls lol..

#nobody who isnt aroace is allowed to tell ME what character has to be aroace #yall forget that we aroaces (+ESPECIALLY autistic aroaces) dont want or need your ugly white knight savior bs #'oh but im aroace n i also think hes aroace🤓' ok?? should i care about your hcs? #have your projection hcs or your regular random hcs- i literalky DONT care #but it becomes an issue when u try so desperately to defend it like this #like babe u sound so dumb☠️ #its so confusing to me how u chronically online weirdos insist on making ur hcs canon #i promise u guys ur hcs dont have to be canon for u to enjoy them #its a VERY popular hc too like tf more do u want #im autistic and aroace and i say kusuo is demi and autistic #i am him and he is me so i know factually/j #so still on the aroace spectrum but either way i dont force my hcs on other people like u selfish weirdos do LOL #also this person and the replies being like 'just cuz not all autistic ppl r aroace doesnt mean none can be' YEA OBVIOUSLY? #UR ARGUING WITH THE WALL AND ITS CRAZY CUZ NOBODY EVER SAID THAT #literally not one fucking person said he cant be aroace- just that it isnt canon #do u even fucking hear urselves.. YOURE the ones saying he cant be anything other than aroace.. so YOURE the one doing the forcing.. #u guys love pushing ur stereotypes on others and then defending it to high fucking hell #anyway sorry i dont have a public twitter so im saying my piece here #the link looks suspicious as hell twitter pwease give me a better link #saiki k #tdlosk #the disastrous life of saiki k. #saiki kusuo #meows post

[ghostlyeris]

call me steel the way i'm the number 1 suvi defender. my girl did all that shit but that doesn't mean i'm gonna let her face a consequence for it

#im actually very pro narrative consequences. HOWEVER #suvi gets A LOT of shit from the fandom for what i think are COMPLETELY reasonable decisions or feelings #so ive swung the complete opposite way #call me a lawyer the way im her public defender #suvirin kedberiket #the wizard the witch and the wild one #worlds beyond number

[touchlikethesun]

i long for the day when it is not controversial to say that ts is a republican that acts purely for monetary gain and to uphold the status quo. her winning person of the year is the last nail in the coffin, if any doubt remained. convincing thousands if not millions of people that ts and her ‘politics’ are progressive is one of the smartest moves the man made so far this century. literally get your fucking bread and circuses everyone.

#every time it’s a discussion every time it’s an argument and i’m sorry what are we even arguing about #she makes fun music but how do you not see that that’s not the point???? #she has purposefully amassed a rabid fan base milks them for money making empty promises and allusions to good values #and i just can’t stand it i can’t stand people defending her #when you are a figure like that either you stay absolutely TF out of politics #no bothering with vague statements or carefully staged ‘emotional outbursts’ #or you commit wholeheartedly to what you believe in #god dammit #anti taylor swift #ik i have swiftie mutuals and honestly my beef is not with you music is music we like what we like #but ts the person and the ts the public figure are genuinely not doing good in this world and that’s just a fact at this point

[paulic]

I just know they think they ended domestic violence directed at women. If only you knew. Oblivion is peace

#this is so funny to me. people know NOTHING and think they’re entitled to an opinion lmfao #I could shatter this persons world in a matter of seconds. babe just call up Barbara #both John and ringo admitted to what they did and yet only one of them is being torn to shreds by the public. I wonder why that is! #perhaps because he can’t defend himself anymore? surely it couldn’t be…………ha ha #Beatles #ringo starr #John Lennon

[whatthepublicdefender]

When the victim of a robbery / attempted murder is asked to identity the person who assaulted him and he points to a juror and says, "That guy looks like him." (True story.)

#whatthepublicdefender #what the public defender #swingandamiss #ron swanson #criminaldefense #criminallaw #public defender #publicdefender #public defenders #criminal defense #legal #criminal law

[maxellminidisc]

Lol genuinely I recommend checking those very vaguely worded posts angry about people being sex critical or whatever cause op 9/10 will without a doubt be one of the many people on this website who gets mad when you question why they enjoy pedophilic content or their lil enabler friends...

Like insane that we cant have conversation on sex and how nice it would be to talk about sex openly and freely and especially conversation on kink, without people like that trying to dominate the conversation as an excuse for shit they're into thats genuinely harmful

#keep seeing that one about communist being mad you jerk off or whatever #and op was one of those people defending people who were into lolicon and shit like... #nobody thinks youre gross for jacking off #they think youre gross for what you're publically and glibbly sharing that you jack off to that is genuinely revolting....

[statementlou]

I've been trying to figure out wtf was the aim of this especially weird troll copy paste series of messages (accusing someone no one has ever heard of of doing something incomprehensible that they don't explain) but I guess this was the game: to then be like, omg I can't believe no one is doing anything about this problem I made up!! If you doubt me that this is a troll, I have blocked this person twice already and yet here there are again. Anyway, take note of this technique because you will see it in media about things that actually matter too: make up a non existent problem, then derail real discussions about real things (like for example ACTUAL racism or, to look at a place in current events where we are seeing this used every day right now, literal fucking genocide) by making people waste their time defending themselves against something made up. Antis out here jotting down tips from Israel's playbook, fucking shameful tbh

#anonsense #anon hate #trolls #'defend' my ass literally every person who has responded to these messages has said the same thing: #I have no idea what you are talking about or who that is #anon with details thank you but now that I know more I have zero desire to give any of it more publicity #very happy to live in a separate fandom universe from so many bloggers on here and will definitely be keeping it that way #but I stand by my assessment of this anon and what they are doing regardless: this is not a real issue

[rizzstappen]

Can you link the Scotty and Daniel thought piece? I’m just curious because people don’t seem to know how adult friendships work.

Hi Anonstie!

I saw it on tik tok like yesterday so I don’t think I can go back and find it lol. But the creator was basically saying how she thought it was weird that Daniel had never been to one of Scotty’s events and how if that was her she doesn’t think she could be friends with him.

Ya know everyone is entitled to their own option but it was the people in the comments that clearly have a Daniel hater boner. They were saying that it made him (daniel) a bad friend and people were bashing him and calling him an asshole. That he went to Montana (with Scotty btw?) and that the cold is not a good enough excuse. The of creator was also liking some of these comments and agreeing with them?

Like all of that is weird to me 😭 like we don’t know these guys are the dynamics of their friendship but we’re over here making judgement based on what they show us or something we heard on a podcast??

People in the comments were also mad that Scotty went on the podcast and was shit talking Daniel and Lance. Which I don’t think he was? Idk I didn’t listen tbh.

#also Daniel doesn’t need me to defend him so don’t take this as I’m defending him lol #I just think it’s weird when people think they know the drivers and what their friendships are like #like they all put on a persona for the public and play their role #what happens in their lives is probobly so different then what they show us #just my opinion I suppose #is this gonna cause discourse? #idk but I’ll tag it just in case #f1 discourse #daniel ricciardo #scotty james #anonymous #asks

[kittyoverlord]

Working from Home on a busy week means opening cases all the way up until the new Dimension 20 episode. Now I get to channel the spirit of Sklonda Gukgak to help me get through the public defender case slog.

#it's been crazy catching up from time off and other recent incidents #i'm so busy... #i kinda want a scene where we see Sklonda's office and/or see her talk about how many cases she's working and shows what non-attorneys do #personal #pd life #my life #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fhjy #fantasy high junior year #sklonda gukgak #public defender