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I have the same username over at Reddit, where I'm a regular at r/LawAndOrder and one of *the* ultimate fangirls for Bobby Goren and the man who plays him oh so well.
So naturally when I heard there was a thriving Criminal Intent fan base over at Tumblr, I wanted my cakeday here to match his actual birthday. I was skeptical about signing up, but all I needed was a little something sweet.
Getting down on my knees and thanking the humans who invented dishwashers and washing machines.
funniest yet most enlightening conversation on this whole social media ban topic, by two girls sat across from me on the bus the other day:
"what do they mean by social media? does Roblox count? what about all the stuff I've built?"
"you'll be fine, doesn't your icloud say you're 34?"
"oh my god they're even banning Facebook. who the fuck is on Facebook"
Saudades (pronounced sow-dad-ezh) is a Portuguese word that is not directly translatable to English. It generally means, a feeling of nostalgia or yearning for a time and/or place you've never been. The grammatical construction is "to have saudades."
Mark my words, Gen-Z/Alpha having saudades for the bygone Internet that existed decades before they did, coupled with the endlessly crafty ways that the youth manage to evade whatever the grown-ups try to do (in this case a social media ban), is going to bring about a renaissance of Usenet, BBSes, and CompuServe. Vibe-coded chatrooms everybody.
Get ready for the 14.4k modem to become the hottest trending item on dialup-friendly Tik Tok. Instead of Six-Seven, the "new" indecipherable slang expression in every classroom will be "V-dot-thirty-two-biss."
Pull up a seat, script kiddies. Us elder geeks and longtime open-sourcers got a lot to clue you in on. Someday you'll find it, the Kermit Protocol Connection, the hackers, the geezers, and me.
the thing about ai witch hunt is that instead of spreading awareness about why and how ai can be harmful, people focus their energy on harassing other people instead. so instead of actually achieving something, fandom space and the internet as a whole just became twice as toxic because people have found a ✨noble way✨ to tell other people to off themselves and get praises for it. you’re not helping. you’re part of the problem
be yourself...
hey so. don’t do this.
“coming from a place of respect” there is nothing respectful about a comment like this. this is exactly why I say witch hunt, speculations and accusations harm the writing community as much as ai does, if not more.
I am not saying “you’re an asshole if you think a fic is ai”. I have come across fics that I believe were ai-generated. but instead of asking (accusing) the authors, I make my own decisions whether I’ll continue reading for the benefit of the doubt or quietly exit the fics and look for something else to read.
because with every accusation like this, there’s always a chance of a genuine, innocent writer getting wrongly accused.
last but not least, fanfic writers do NOT owe you anything. they write for themselves and their own enjoyment. their ao3 accounts are their houses and they were kind enough to let you in their houses. for free. (you get to read things for free.) you don’t go into other people’s houses and tell them “actually I think the way you decorate your room is sus. did you actually do it yourself or did you ask a robot to do it for you?”. THEY 👏🏻 DON’T 👏🏻 OWE 👏🏻 YOU 👏🏻 ANYTHING. and I say this as someone who is not a fan of ai fics. if you don’t like what you’re seeing, quietly leave.
*the following is not about the fic in this specific post. in general, I still strongly believe people who let ai write for them should tag their works as ai accordingly. but if we want more people to be honest about it, we’ll have to stop shaming and harassing people who actually tag their ai-generated fics accordingly. harassment is never justified. not to mention, it will only make “ai writers” refrain from tagging their ai-generated works as such. and then there’s no way for anyone to know for absolute certainty if it’s ai. therefore the raise of witch hunt.
Someone apparently got bullied to the brink of (I *think* the actual word for the act is censored on here?) "un-aliving" oneself over such unprovable "accusations." When I saw this I was aghast. (Is that an A.I. word? Is having an extensive "hundred-dollar vocabulary" a "tell"?)
Apparently the fandom for that Canadian hockey series has gone off the rails. I've never seen the show, but this kind of behavior would seem to go against everything that the author would have wanted.
One must take care not to stare into the abyss and fall into it. To deprive people of their humanity as a "necessary evil" for "defending humanity" is at best unproductive and at worst, outright sadistic.
The sad irony is, the all-too-human tendency toward cruelty is only going to make manufactured substitutions more appealing.
To borrow from Mark Twain: "The more I see of people, the more I love that goddamn talking paperclip." Well, if humans don't learn to be kinder to each other, online and offline, then we will have become the paperclip maximizers that so many claim to abhor.
(Oops, I used another S.A.T. word. I guess I just gave away the plot — and the style, too. It's not alive. It's not undead. It's Memorex — or something to that effect. See what I did there?)
@soraya-elentari had done a post awhile back of little parallels showing up in Criminal Intent and the Daredevil series (Netflix/Born Again).
(I think most recently it was in response to the "Boo!" that VD'O does in DD:BA S2 season finale, hearkening back to the "Boo!" that he does in CI 1x08 "The Pardoner's Tale.")
I added another to the list if she hasn't already, because this one in particular made me do a callout like the DiCaprio-points-at-TV meme.
From CI 2x19 "Cherry Red."
(AKA "The One Where Bobby Revvs Up a Hot Ferrari.")
Goren is drawing up a profile of suspect Roger Coffman for Eames and Deakins, and crafts a psychological narrative of when Coffman's pursuit of ill-gotten gains really began. (Childhood. Ain't it always the way?)
Say the line, Bart.
Fox News: Woke libraries are dens of filth where wild sex parties are happening in the stacks!
Normal people: How would they know? Nobody who watches Fox News has ever been to a library.
Not me: (thirsts for 6'4" library cop dressed all in black who takes an armload of Yukio Mishima and Anne Rice into the "private reading room" where more than just books get bound up in leather)
so real, I loved this movie growing up.
when I was in high school I had a literature teacher who had a policy of unlimited extra credit. All you had to do was read a book by a notable author (his discretion) and have a little chat with him after school to prove that you read it. No limits, no need for variety (one month I decided I really loved Kurt Vonnegut and just read everything of his I could get my hands on).
Yes, I was tearing through books constantly, and talking to this teacher at least weekly. Because even though I always loved reading as a kid, literature was always a very weak subject for me in terms of a teaching-to-standardized-test school setting (I just do awful on "what color were the curtains" type multiple choice questions. Those details don't stick in my memory THEY JUST DON'T). But that didn't matter for this class. I could just read my way out of any bad test score. I have always had fond memories of how I "fudged" my way through that class and "abused' the extra credit policy.
I was thinking about it again today, and only just now realized that he absolutely tricked me into being well-read, while my teenage self thought I was totally getting away with something. THAT MOTHERFUCKER. I hope he's doing well.
Now see, I went to a Catholic school in first grade and got punished for being such a voracious reader that I ended up filling out three Pizza Hut Book It! charts (remember those?). I was told in no uncertain terms that I was "showing off," and the teacher threatened to call the local Pizza Hut to have me banned from the restaurant (!) for committing fraud.
EVEN THOUGH I DONATED THE OTHER TWO PIZZA VOUCHERS TO CHARITY. THAT'S RIGHT I DIDN'T EVEN EAT THE EXTRA PIZZA. I GAVE IT TO THE HUNGRY. AND I WASN'T "SHOWING OFF" WITH VIRTUE SIGNALING EITHER. I JUST LIKED PIZZA AND BOOKS OK.
I also got referred to a child psychiatrist for objecting, who gave me "differential diagnoses" of ADHD and what at the time was called Asperger syndrome. Apparently "hyperlexia" is a symptom of a mental illness, immediately identified as such by (checks notes) bad teachers who go out of their way to discourage their students from reading. It wasn't long after that, I was actually expelled from the Catholic school because "clinical judgment" determined that I had a "contagious illness" that could adversely impact the other students. (What? Bibliophilia?)
I guess I forgot, Bible 101 lesson is that Eve gets banished for eating the teacher's apple and acquiring knowledge of how the sausage is made. I jest, but what was actually going on was the nascent beginnings of "diagnosis fear panic" that has since metastasized into a full blown pandemic in and of itself. (And is causing old pandemics to resurface.) All you had to say was the magic word autism and watch the primitive base amygdala response unfold in real time. Anatomy of a witch hunt.
The irony is that one of the books I read was Matilda. Two years later, it became a movie that millions of people came to know and love.
I can't help but think maybe there wouldn't be such a literacy crisis in "kids these days" if the USA hadn't spent the past 30 years sending them to A.B.A. in part to rid them of this troublesome hyperfixation and make them more "sociable." (And also if the USA didn't put such a premium on extroverted "sociability" as a dealbreaker for survival.)
Yes, I'm aware of what an asshole Connie Smith was (in L&O:CI 3x08 "Sound Bodies") and what he did with what he "learned" from his books, but a smug (fictional) teenager exploiting his precociousness to manifest an identity as senior-class Charles Manson is in no way the same as a curious 8-year-old girl in 1994 having her "ass busted because she reads books" and being told she needs to cool her jets on the whole "reading" thing because she's making bad teachers look bad and they're redirecting that insecurity to "you're making your other classmates feel bad and you too should feel bad."
I did feel bad, though, and I do still feel bad, not because I was making the other classmates feel bad (I wasn't, they just thought it was cool that I was smart and got rewarded with more pizza for being smart), but because I was also smart enough to know what a mental illness was even at a tender age, that it's a "thing you go to the doctor for" that leads other people to make you feel bad for having it, in a way they don't when you have the flu or mono or a skinned knee.
I also found out as an adult that this particular "thing you go to the doctor for" scares so many people that they would rather their kids get (even die from) measles or polio than to have this "thing you go to the doctor for" because they (have been led to) believe that the medicine that prevents you from having measles or polio (the vaccine) is what causes the other "thing you go to the doctor for."
I also know for a fact that this "thing you go to the doctor for" is why I always felt a kinship with Matilda and with Bobby Goren (and.... considering Criminal Intent debuted right as I got to high school, needless to say I felt a lot more than just "kinship" for that man). I also know it's not even necessarily a Scientology thing to feel that the DSM might in fact be the most destructive book ever unleashed onto mankind. (Maybe tied with Dianetics itself, ironically at that.)
Anyway. This is a rant about what good teachers can do, what bad teachers can do, why Americans probably cooked themselves doubly by letting AuDHD-phobia contribute to a simultaneous collapse in literacy and a multiply-comorbid outbreak of biblical plagues, and why I'll always have a soft spot for people who might be a little "touched" under clinical criteria but that it's also because of that status why they may love books and don't really care if it makes stupid people feel bad.
Also fuck RFK Jr. all day and every day.
“Creative minds have always been known to survive…”
— Anna Freud
I suppose I have, simply for fact that I'm, well, breathing.
Thriving is quite a different thing though...
gen going insane over law n order.. I love this random crime show way too much n the foreshadowing always gets to meeee
goren sayin stuff like "the twisted tango of brotherly love" seems so normal in the early seasons n then we see his actual relationship with his brother n it's like.. u would know wouldnt u
Same thing with him being able to get some usable info outta the delirious homeless guy.. ofc u have practice vro have u seen that family
Goren as a character is so fascinating i love his lil head tilts n his super unique cadence (i never really paid attention to it b4 but he'll stop n pause or lower his voice in the middle of sentences)
L&O:CI Out-of-Context Quotes: World Cup Edition
Some thoughts from Major Case Captain Jimmy Deakins on the USMNT defeat, after their victorious opponents trolled the red-card president what jinxed 'em:
And now a very happy birthday to Kathryn Erbe! Photo from 2025.
Happy Sesquipedalian Semiquincentennial
Thrilled to be watching a Criminal Intent marathon on 4th of July weekend instead of... well, I'll let Carver give an apt description of what the master disaster of ceremonies has on offer for "Freedom 250."
Ragging on the worst criminal offender to have ever squatted in the White House is one of my favorite running memes from this show, up there with Deakins' "Step into him" instructing his good detectives to turn up the heat on a suspect; Eames' "No, see..." when she's about to debunk someone's bullshit; and of course, the Goren Lean itself.
As seen in 4x06 "In the Dark," when discussing a tunnel dweller who describes himself as ruler of all the real estate of the underworld:
Now of course, it's not difficult at all to apply other quotes out of context to Donald the dull-witted D.C. diabolus, in reference to what gets "ripped from the headlines" (DUN DUN) on any given day...... uh what's this now
SMH. Yeah, you tell 'em, Bobby.
There's a "wee, small" joke to be made here too, but it's got nothing to do with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, and everything to do with inadequacy in comparison to crowd size, plane size, monument size, size-thirteen gumshoes and... other appendages at that:
But I've wasted enough pixels on this sad, failing, dopey loser. Time to go chill out on the hottest day of the year, with the hottest intellectual empath to have ever joined the ranks of the (fictionalized) NYPD.
Maybe he's a little unstable...
but he is a bona fide genius.
"Taken to an extreme, these individuals develop into 'pseudologia fantastica' -- impostors -- who, when confronted with evidence of their fraud, erupt in a rage, and will go to any length to persuade their audience that their fantasy is true."
Well, gee. I couldn't have said it any better myself. (And in Latin, too!)
✺ ✹ ✺ FIREWORKS ARE DANGEROUS
They terrify cats and dogs. Loud explosions can cause pets to panic, hide for days, escape from homes, or injure themselves trying to flee.
Wildlife experiences extreme stress. Birds, deer, foxes, rabbits, and other animals often mistake fireworks for danger, causing panic and exhaustion.
Birds can die during stampedes or collisions. Frightened birds may fly into buildings, power lines, or each other in the dark, resulting in injury or death.
Young animals can be abandoned. Startled parents may flee nests or dens, leaving babies vulnerable to starvation, exposure, or predators.
They leave behind litter and toxic debris. Plastic casings, paper, cardboard, and chemical residue can contaminate parks, rivers, forests, and beaches, where wildlife may ingest or become entangled in it.
They increase the risk of wildfires. Sparks from fireworks can ignite dry grass, forests, and other vegetation, destroying habitats and killing countless animals.
Cats and wildlife can disappear for days. Frightened animals often run long distances from home or their territories, increasing the risk of starvation, dehydration, road accidents, and becoming lost.
Noise disrupts natural behavior. Fireworks interfere with feeding, hunting, migration, communication, and sleep, sometimes affecting animals long after the display has ended.
The celebration lasts minutes, but the consequences can last much longer. Wildlife injuries, displaced pets, environmental pollution, and habitat damage can persist for days, weeks, or even years after a single fireworks event.
PLEASE SPREAD AWARENESS!!!
