#—《 via. heroicisms. 》

[elfcollector]

I've been lied to my whole life. And I was gullible enough to just believe it.

[blackcathjp]

can't stop thinking about newly turned vampire harry with his aching baby vampire teeth. he just needs to teethe on something, his fangs tingling to bite, to gnaw, to suck, to do anything to alleviate the discomfort. he's very good at resisting against his new instincts. and then draco (human, vampire, werewolf, WHATEVER), completely unafraid, grabs harry by the jaw and yanks his mouth open to look at his fangs, slightly scolding, "stop fidgeting potter." he brushes a thumb down a fang, turning all smug and cooing when harry whines at the sensitivity from his touch. "aww, baby can't handle the pain hmm?"

he purposefully nicks his thumb on the sharp point, crying out "oops!" a bloody cut forms, the blood so fresh to harry, so full of warm flowing life, smells so much of draco that he can't stop a moan from slipping out when a drop touches his tongue. draco smirks smugly at harry losing himself to it - his half-lidded dilated eyes, his euphoric expression like he just drank from an oasis in the desert - before the realization sets in that he just had a taste. he squirms against draco's surprisingly strong hold, whimpering as draco smears his bloody thumb across harry's bottom lip, the scent now more intense and intoxicating. sheer willpower helps harry fight against the desire, the need, to sink his fangs in, but the pain from resisting and retracting his fangs is beginning to hurt more than simply giving in to his instincts.

"come on potter," draco breathes heavily across his cheek, thumb still dribbling out blood. "just bite."

[scribefindegil]

me: so tired and stressed and understimulated that I am incapable of rational thought

my brain: you should write a sestina

[aingeal98]

I'm crying they resurrected Jason deliberately with lazarus fluid. How are you going to copy Steph's death in Batgirls but make it boring and pointless with zero emotional weight or acknowledgement of anything Jason has the right to be mad at Bruce about. He didn't even have a gay best friend kiss him as he died.

[feedingfrenzy2-shipwreckshowdown]

Can't believe that the second half of Mickey 17 is just Nausicaä, and that I managed to start paying attention literally right before it started happening. I'm always on the lookout for Nausicaä, but usually it isn't nearly as obvious, and it's especially uncommon outside of anime.

[restlesshush]

Watched an episode of voyager and now I’m thinking about how much I love rygel farscape

[prince-liest]

THEY ARE NOW BEAUTIFUL AND PERFECT AND MATCHING

[innerchorus]

Okay ArSen fans what are the non-canonical duels you'd most like to see? Mine is currently Isfan vs. Zandeh!

[thenixkat]

so if we go with the alien Scarabs being alien tech AND magic as the Rebirth run, and the Egyptian scarab being a symbol of regeneration and rebirth then it would make sense if it could straight up revive fuckers from the dead.

thus Dan coming back from being dead. Whole ass zombie in like the actual real meaning of zombie (corpse reanimated with magic/rituals to do labor of the behalf of its summoner) and not the colonized ass rotting vampires that white people turned the concept into.

and also just being able to heal its host in general. Which we do see that Khaji Da can heal Jaime. If we go with it was also bonded to Ted just not able to do shit for him b/c broken (stated in the 2006 run) or going off of the Ted vs Dan fight in the 1986 run Ted being unwilling to actively use the thing that tried to take over his mind and revived his mentor back from the dead but evil I still think it should offer a healing factor for him. Like certainly not as quick as what it does to Jaime who it lives inside but something passive would be neat.

Like a backhanded, 'congrats for proving yerself worthy Ted! Here's a very minor power and better keep that will power strong or I will snatch yer body' kinda thing. Something he didn't want or need but now he's got it.

will be using the 1986 run stuff cause that's fun implications but altering the end of the fight to make Ted have to be the one to put his mentor back down using Khaji's power and very much not vibing with using the Scarab after coming back to himself fully. Idk i just think itd be fun. A dangerous last resort trump card. Also b/c I wanna turn Ted into a werebug. I just think it'd be neat.

[lavenderjiang]

finding shadowheart v relatable, im only at the start of act 1 so far in both my playthroughs, but i keep accidentally becoming besties w/ her bcos we agree on things

[gildedpin]

i hate capitalism so much it's unreal

[voiceofthelionhearted]

i sat down to write and abruptly forgot how to 😭

[falesten-iw]

Being someone who fights for their family in a world that barely acknowledges Gaza’s suffering? That’s its own special kind of hell. Every time a loved one is injured, whether it’s your partner, your child, or even yourself, the doctors rush in. But don’t expect any miracles. The tools they bring aren’t fresh from pristine, state-of-the-art hospitals. They’re the leftovers of a world that has abandoned Gaza. Surgical plates aren’t delivered by some heroic supply chain. They’re pulled from the bodies of the dead, handed down like cursed heirlooms. Metal meant to heal now carries the weight of death, and infection waits to take what little hope remains.

Doctors are left with impossible decisions: amputate, scavenge through the dead for a plate to salvage, or wait for one that may never come. And the price? These plates cost more than most families in Gaza could ever afford. As resources vanish, everything becomes more expensive. It’s a cruel game with no winners, and we’re all stuck in it.

This is the reality for 26 members of my family, all just trying to stay alive. Two orphaned children. A loved one paralyzed by shrapnel that tore through her body. Her survival hinges on removing infected plates that shouldn’t even exist in her story. Every hour that passes steals more of her future while the world stands still. And yes, you’ve probably seen the video of her injuries shared before. In case you missed it: Link.

This isn’t just about my family. This is Gaza. It’s about a world that watches genocide unfold and calls it politics. A world that stands silent as families like mine scrape by with nothing but scraps, while doctors stitch together lives using whatever’s left behind. But here’s the thing, we won’t let this be the end. Hope is still a choice we make every single day, even when the world seems to have forgotten how to care.

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[reasonsforhope]

"Buried among Florida’s manicured golf courses and sprawling suburbs are the artifacts of its slave-holding past: the long-lost cemeteries of enslaved people, the statues of Confederate soldiers that still stand watch over town squares, the old plantations turned into modern subdivisions that bear the same name. But many students aren’t learning that kind of Black history in Florida classrooms.

In an old wooden bungalow in Delray Beach, Charlene Farrington and her staff gather groups of teenagers on Saturday mornings to teach them lessons she worries that public schools won’t provide. They talk about South Florida’s Caribbean roots, the state’s dark history of lynchings, how segregation still shapes the landscape and how grassroots activists mobilized the Civil Rights Movement to upend generations of oppression.

“You need to know how it happened before so you can decide how you want it to happen again,” she told her students as they sat as their desks, the morning light illuminating historic photographs on the walls.

Florida students are giving up their Saturday mornings to learn about African American history at the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum in Delray Beach and in similar programs at community centers across the state. Many are supported by Black churches, which for generations have helped forge the cultural and political identity of their parishioners.

Since Faith in Florida developed its own Black history toolkit last year, more than 400 congregations have pledged to teach the lessons, the advocacy group says.

Florida has required public schools to teach African American history for the past 30 years, but many families no longer trust the state’s education system to adequately address the subject.

By the state’s own metrics, just a dozen Florida school districts have demonstrated excellence at teaching Black history, by providing evidence that they are incorporating the content into lessons throughout the school year and getting buy-in from the school board and community partners.

School district officials across Florida told The Associated Press that they are still following the state mandate to teach about the experience of enslavement, abolition and the “vital contributions of African Americans to build and strengthen American society.”

But a common complaint from students and parents is that the instruction seems limited to heroic figures such as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks and rarely extends beyond each February’s Black History Month.

When Sulaya Williams’ eldest child started school, she couldn’t find the comprehensive instruction she wanted for him in their area. So in 2016, she launched her own organization to teach Black history in community settings.

“We wanted to make sure that our children knew our stories, to be able to pass down to their children,” Williams said.

Williams now has a contract to teach Saturday school at a public library in Fort Lauderdale, and her 12-year-old daughter Addah Gordon invites her classmates to join her.

“It feels like I’m really learning my culture. Like I’m learning what my ancestors did,” Addah said. “And most people don’t know what they did.”"

-via AP News, December 23, 2024

[kindness-ricochets]

Thinking About Gender Performance via Eliot in Leverage...

I adore how this show comments on masculinity with Eliot, and the shootout in The Big Band Job represents that perfectly. Eliot doesn’t use guns. We know he can, that’s never been a question, he’s career military until whatever shattered his illusions with that career (I don’t know if we find out, I haven’t finished the series yet). I didn’t want to really comment until I finished the series, but it’s too much of a standout not to comment. In most shows, Eliot would be armed at all times. It would become a running gag how constantly and thoroughly he is armed. He would have to disarm and pull out an inexplicable number of weapons, like Aragorn in The Two Towers or Inej in Shadow and Bone. Alternately, he might become a true pacifist—think Shepherd Book in Firefly. That’s the usual portrayal of a gunman who’s turned his back on guns. Instead, Eliot doesn’t, can’t walk away from that life. So he stays in it without relying on the easy solution. He’s a stone-cold badass because of what he can do unarmed, or scavenge-armed with a shovel or chair or whatever’s on hand. So why do I keep coming back to the scene where Eliot picks up a gun? Where he behaves like the cowboy I’ve seen a thousand different times in a thousand different media? Because the second the camera panned to the gun, my stomach clenched, because this wasn’t about how cool an outlaw is. It was about all the trauma Eliot can barely keep to a simmer that he was about to face head-on because he is still, above all, beholden to and defined by duty. And the way that scene is framed is so, so, so cool. It evokes cowboys and action heroes and The Matrix. The violence is justified: these are bad guys and Eliot is saving Nate. We literally see a handgun jammed down the front of Eliot’s trousers—he has, in the cultural parlance, reclaimed his masculinity. And that’s the toxic masculinity. The soldier. The cowboy. The myth of those roles without the hard work and dirt and early mornings. The cowboy without hardscrabble, the soldier without blood. We know Eliot can step into either role. He is, capital-a capital-m, A Man. And that scene is so, so, so cool. I can’t stop thinking about it. If it were in most shows, it wouldn’t stay with me the same way. It would be heroic and triumphant. In Leverage, what defines that scene? “They don’t need to know what I did.” It's shame. It’s a reminder that no matter how cool and justified and cowboy, this wasn’t the time Eliot took out a bunker full of mooks. This was when Eliot was pushed into such a narrow corner he defied his principles. He broke the rule that keeps everything in check. I don’t leave this episode feeling like Eliot’s a badass. Eliot’s always been a badass. I leave the episode remembering how deeply shattered this character is. In conclusion, no other show does it like Leverage, this is good stuff right here and I’m so glad I found it!

[synchodai]

Gortash is legit the funniest concept for a villain I've ever witnessed. You march with your heroic war band to confront the evil tyrant, fully ready to lay out his manipulations in the throne room in front of the city's government. You know, standard fantasy hero stuff. But then the evil villain goes "Best friend!!!! I'm so glad you could make it 🥰🤗 I missed you so much 🥺"

Honestly, what a power move. It doesn't even matter if he was exaggerating or outright lying. The man saw a threat coming and deployed a tactical disarming strike via the all-too universal feeling of remembering an embarassing thing you did in the past (him, probably) and forcing you to cringe into stunned submission.