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@CaptainAmerica: Are you sure you made the right choice? Find out in theaters.

Bonus:

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Seriously.  WTF, USA.

The United States of America is only one of two countries that has not approved and accepted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The other is South Sudan, which has already begun the ratification process. 

Among other things, the CRC ensures children under the age of 18 have the right to life, identity and name, education, freedom of expression, equal opportunity, healthcare, psychological recovery, cultural sensitivities for minority/indigenous groups, and access to information [x].

The lack of the CRC in the USA is part of the reason why it is okay to send children to abusive “camps” that attack their identity as LGBTQ+ minorities, enroll them in private schools that intentionally deny students opportunities to learn about science (particularly anatomy and sexuality), and sign away their children’s rights to the state.

It is also why juveniles in the USA can be sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole, a legal implications that particularly affects people of color, especially Black and Latinx children. 

The CRC also specifies that children should not be disciplined in a manner that is considered abusive, and the USA therefore does not regulate the “discipline” occurring in homes of at-risk children, even when it qualifies as mental or emotional abuse. 

Due to the lack of the CRC, children can be relocated against their will (eg, deportation/trafficking) to potentially dangerous and life-threatening places, can be separated from their parents, or can be kept in isolation. 

Basically, the United States, which claims to be a great champion of human rights, has consistently refused to ratify or even introduce the bill to ratify the Convention of the Rights of the Child.

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Matt Murdock and Jessica Jones questioned about their professions.

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Jessica Jones Text Post Meme (3/?)

Jessica Jones Edition

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“She’s not just getting in trouble because she’s the girl and she’s associated with Matt; she’s getting in trouble because she’s saying, ‘I see something terrible happening and I’m going to jump right into the midst of that, possibly at my own expense, and I don’t care. I’m not going to let this continue.’” – Deborah Ann Woll

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Watch: In one quote, President Obama told the nation tonight what we must do about Islamophobia.

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requested by anonymous

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“Our ecosystem was clearly designed by the Devil, but at least we don’t have more guns than people.”

America’s Gun Problem Is So Bad Even Australians Are Scared

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IT’S SO TRUE.  *headdesk*

I feel like when you’re writing, organizing chapters and dialogue is easy

but jfc, the amount of time it takes to constantly keep people moving and make sure they’re in the right spaces and trying to come up with wording for it is always such a shock. 

Like, fuck, I made you pick up a coffee cup, you need to put it down at some point. also I can’t remember what I dressed you in, can you push up your sleeves? I don’t remember if you even have your shirt on.

and YOU. YOU OVER THERE, you got out of your chair earlier, but did you come back yet? Are you coming back? Where did you even go and why’d you get up? Fuck, I can’t make you sit down again already, you just stood up, go…over there. go get more coffee. Did you bring your mug with you? fine. bring the pot to the table and—wait, wasn’t the coffee pot already over here? shit, hold on, I need to go back and re-read and re-write

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Full of Unexpected Places

Let's talk about four young siblings.  

Four young siblings taken out of war-torn London, in the blackened, bomb-broken, blacked-out height of the Blitz.  Four young siblings who find a wooden box, find a door that transports them to other worlds, that is bigger on the inside that it has any right to be.

Oh, wait, you think, you've heard this story before, haven’t you?  This is the one about the wardrobe and the witch and the lion, isn't it?

Well...

... no.

Not exactly.

Because there are stories and then there are <i>stories,</i> and some of them bear passing familiarity to others, and some of them are <i>based</i> on others.  Think of how many times myths and tales and legends have shifted, altered, smudged the finer details over the course of millennia. Sometimes to make a better story. Sometimes to heighten a moral.

Sometimes to hide a truth.

So, yes, there was a brave, wise, slightly reckless leader who would lay down his life in protection of others, if need be, though he would prefer to find a way out where nobody dies.  All too often this leader might be painted by others as something dangerous, something predatory, a terrible fearsome thing that children might read bloodied tales about in their gramarye books.

And he is that, can be that, if you happen to be the sort of creature who would harm those who’ve done no true wrongs.  If that is the case, he might happen into your story and trick you, turn your triumph against you and see all that you thought achieved cast down and defeated.  Even if you thought him dead, still he might rise up again in golden light, like an aurora cast by the first glimmers of the new day, to return to the battlefield and defeat you, even when your victory seems assured.

If you were that sort of creature, well, one day he could just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.  Perhaps a great deal of evil might have been averted by the mere threat of his presence.

Or perhaps not. Sometimes evil comes into a world regardless – through greed, through cruelty, through spite or malice, through disbelief that another might hold power enough to stop it.

But the thing is, you know, this leader isn’t exactly alone.  In fact, in many of these stories there are also young companions along as well, youthful (and possibly naïve) adventurous types with upstanding moral character who have a drive to explore and discover, to save and preserve, to be valiant, and just, and gentle, and magnificent.  And because this leader isn’t alone, well, a great many things which might seem impossible become, all of a sudden, achievable.

Quite often, when these stories are told, they happen in time outside of time, and so when they come to a proper breaking point – an interlude, a hiatus, a pause in the action, so they might say – then those youthful companions might be returned to the lives they once knew, and no more than a bare span of minutes might have passed. Nothing, it might seem, would have changed while they had been gone.

For them, however, these brave youthful companions, everything had changed.  For they had grown and matured, faced challenges and enemies that peers of their own age couldn’t possibly begin to fathom.  For them, the world they’d known had changed, was different, seemingly smaller.  Each of them knowing, now, that there was so much <i>else</i> just beyond the horizon.  And inside, parts of each of them longed to return to that adventure, to once again find a truer purpose in standing against unjust tyrants and eldritch foes.  

Some of them might, one day. Others, well…  people grow older, grow up, become even more the protagonists of their own stories and learn to lead all on their own.

But even if they can’t return, if they are denied another chance to go back to that other life that so captivated them, that enriched them to such an astonishing degree, they are forever changed.  They look for cracks in the boundaries of the everyday, for impossible gaps that might have swallowed angels or devils or escaped prisoners, for riddles spoken in dire tones and otherworldly languages.  They look for hidden treasures, hole-in-the-wall secrets, for hidden entrances to long-lost passageways, for shadowy nooks and shallow-looking niches that might be full of mysteries just waiting to be solved.

Because you can’t properly judge a place with the briefest of glances.  You need to experience it, live inside it, run your fingers along its hidden surfaces, take in the details glimpsed from the corner of your eye as much as those you’re staring straight at.  You need to take in the scent of a dozen different worlds and a hundred different cultures, share words and kindnesses and tales with individuals that might look just like you or like nothing you’ve ever seen before.  Their stories might be not too different from yours, after all, or they might just differ in almost every particular.  Where you might see a lion others might see an oncoming storm, where you see a professor others might see a doctor, but certain things will always remain constant.

There is a box, and its doors open into strange locales, and it is bigger on the inside than it appears from without.

And it is full of unexpected places.

/// crossposted to http://archiveofourown.org/works/3817540

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(if you aren’t reading stand still stay silent - why aren’t you?)

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Just captured Han Solo and Princess Leia! #selfie #endor

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Look at my men. Their courage hangs by a thread. If this is to be our end, then I would have them make such an end, as to be worthy of remembrance.

a retail manager on the weekend before Christmas, probably (via audreyii-fic)

And then management turned on the repetitive Christmas music loop and all the employees fell to their knees, shrieking in horror, their courage broken at last by the unending tides of barbaric, demanding, rapacious hordes they were forced to name as "customers".  :P

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Oh HELL yes.  :)

Nine Eleven Ten fanvid as promised! I was slightly surpised that 2 months had passed already since we posted the trailer. But, finally - here it is. Made by Etxaberri and Aeirik. All glory to inspirer Subtilior. Music by Two steps from hell. Numerous videos have been used, even including random truckers’ documentaries. Also have some warnings: this video contains McMurphy! Erik, you know, has eagerness for blood, thus - blood, violence etc. (He was carried away with it a bit). Nonlinear narrative. And Charlize Teron as lady Frost-in-mind. Mostly we made two first parts of the fic. And maybe there is a small hint on part three and… another vid? Who knows. Hope you’ll enjoy it.

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Is Agent Jasper Sitwell’s lack of popularity is a combination of bad luck and unappealing characterisation, or was it influenced by racial bias?

When Sitwell was killed off in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, it was clear that his character arc had many similarities to that of Agent Coulson, who was resurrected following the hugely popular #CoulsonLives campaign. But a week and a half after Sitwell’s death, his equivalent fan campaign, #IBelieveInSitwell, is not exactly taking off.

So, why does everyone love Coulson so much more than Sitwell? What makes them so different?

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I'm not entirely sure I buy into the author's logic here.  If you read the full article, yes, admittedly, Ward is white while Sitwell was Hispanic.  However, on the other hand, all that we've seen of Sitwell in his brief on-screen appearances is that he's played by an actor who is, let's face it, not exactly a cover model - the guy's a little dumpy, bald, wears grandpa glasses, etc.

Moreover, we've seen nothing of him other than his SHIELD work.  Unlike Ward or Coulson, he was portrayed with no love interests or moral causes that he stood up for.  Instead he's shown commiserating with a sleazy (note: white) Senator about seducing a young female voter, and then selling out the Hydra cause when threatened in <i>The Winter Soldier.</i>.

If Sitwell had actually been developed as a character outside of this -- and unfortunately, he hadn't been -- then I think there would be more outcry over his untimely death.  Cast an updated Antonio Banderas as a MAoS character and give the guy an on-screen relationship that fans can root for, and I think you'd see a lot more outcry if/when he turns out to be evil or dies.

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Yet more proof that Jennifer Lawrence is both an awesome actress and just like a lot of everyday fans too.  :D

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I think I'd be more inclined to think this cool if it wasn't a blatant ripoff of Cherno Alpha from Pacific Rim.

I Robot di La Marmora, il fantastico secondo Alessandro Girola

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