#Hi-Lite

[khiphop-discussions]

Was looking at some of hi-lite’s old content and just wondering if you (or anyone) would know if there is a subtitled version for their dingo freestyle series, thanksss (and omg I can’t believe Reddy is the same age as the quiett lol)

There's this one, already has subs:

This one:

This one:

I wasn't able to find anymore

[requiderium]

I think House and Wilson should be allowed to wear glasses together. As a treat. (alt versions under the cut)

[bacchuschucklefuck]

dreaming abt sophomore year class swap bard!riz

[carpwood]

all yall talk about wanting to breed him i just wanna hold his hand and bring him flowers

[stagefoureddiediaz]

We’re totally getting Tommy saying something about Eddie ‘being around all the time’ aren’t we!

[im-totally-not-an-alien-2]

Danny always knew there was something wrong with him even before the accident.

He had memories that he couldn't place. Fuzzy scattered ones of him in middle and high school even when he was still taking elementary classes. As a kid he, of course, thought he had superpowers or was receiving psychic visions of the future.

It wasn't until the after the accident that he knew the truth. More specifically, it was when he met Dani.

Memories of being surrounded by people in white coats surfaced in the days following. They would conduct "tests" in which Danny would be forced to solve a puzzle or figure out the answer to something before the timer went off. It always ended the same. He always failed. It wasn't because he was stupid or anything, it was because he was a tiny child who was scared and wanted his mommy and daddy, even if he didn't even know what they would look like.

So all he would do was wail as the scientists stewed in thier frustration. Thier artificial "Robin" was labeled a failure.

Clockwork smiled as the door to the Clocktower slammed open. "Right on time."

"You stole me!" Phantom accused, tears in his eyes, "You took me from my original dimension!"

Clockwork nodded, "Yes."

"Why?!"

In lieu of an answer the time god opened a portal, "And now its time for you to leave."

Phantom snarled, fighting against the sudden suction pulling him into the portal, "This isn't over!" He managed to bite out just before he was completely pulled in.

"I know."

---

The next thing Danny knows is that he is floating high in the sky of a city he knew instinctually was Gotham. The memories from his...original? His template? Were now fully available to him and told him with absolute clarity that he should not stay shining up in the Gotham sky at night unless he wanted a visit from the big bad bat.

He didn't want to test his luck in case he wasn't a fan of clones. Especially since he was a clone of his son.

Thus begins Danny's DC world tour as he searches to the truth behind his creation and attempts in vain to return home all while trying and failing to dodge all the people who are familiar with his template.

(Danny can be a clone of any of the Robins and you can play with the ages all you like thanks to time travel and fanfiction)

[lord-squiggletits]

Reread/skimmed my oldest Pharma apologism posts (mainly the ones about Pharma not being a functionist) and it just occurred to me that possibly another reason the fandom saddled Pharma with the "functionist bigot" label is because his introduction by First Aid says that everyone hates Decepticons, but Pharma really really hates Decepticons. Mix that with the portion of the fanbase that lionizes and whitewashes the Decepticons, and I can easily see it entering common fanon that "Pharma hates Decepticons -> the Decepticons are freedom fighters wrongly maligned by the Autobots/the franchise -> Pharma must be a bigoted functionist since he hates Decepticons who represent freedom."

The simpler explanation is just that Pharma is an antagonist and therefore gets the "everything about him must be evil and wrong" black-and-white analysis so common in fandoms in general, but given some of the bizarre Decepticon takes I've seen I can also easily see Pharma's Decepticon hatred being taken as a sign of him being bigoted and evil.

Though AGAIN in this case it would still be singling Pharma out as a bigot for crimes/flaws that multiple other Autobots are guilty of like.

Oh, Pharma hates Decepticons? Well a lot of other Autobots hate Decepticons too, First Aid's narration about Pharma even says "we all hate Decepticons"; for that matter, there are a lot of Decepticons who hate Autobots. It's a massive civil war that's lasted for a lifetime causing two groups of people to be stuck in a near-permanent blood feud, you can't assume that every Autobot who hates Decepticons (and vice versa) hates them because they're a bigot. Maybe there's been a war where both sides have been building an ever-increasing mountain of reasons to hate each other, so hating the opposite faction is a social problem caused by war and politics rather than a sign of individual moral failing.

Pharma worked at the New Institute so that means he must be evil/bigoted? Chromedome and Brainstorm also worked at the New Institute, but there's no widespread fandom shunning of them or headcanoning them as bigots.

Hell, even the very premise of assuming Pharma is a functionist bigot for hating Decepticons is ignoring the very premise of Pharma's motives, which are, uh... being blackmailed by the leader of the Decepticon Justice Division, who represents the ultimate form of Decepticon ideals to the point of literally wearing their symbol as his mask? So how were we jumping straight to "oh Pharma hates Decepticons bc he's a posh bigoted functionist" when there was a far more immediate interpretation/headcanon of "Pharma hates Decepticons because he's being tortured and blackmailed by one."

That's not to say that Pharma couldn't have hated Decepticons before Delphi, and I think you could make interesting headcanons/extrapolations based on either idea. But still. It kinda feels like people saw Pharma and just wanted to make him the Token Evil Autobot who's the opposite of our Good Heroic Autobots regardless of whether evidence from canon supported it or not.

Good riddance to bigoted functionist Pharma fanon, I'm so glad that the majority of Pharma fanon these days actually gives him a chance and puts him on equal footing as other Autobots.

[danyllura]

Johanna Mason was spot on when she said the capitol killing Prim would never happen because she was too well liked and EVERYONE would turn against them. Cause even with all of Gales tall handsome broodiness he has never been able to come back from being the Prim-reaper, meanwhile certified and proud child killer President Snow has some of the girlies in HEAT making thirst traps of that psychopath while he’s looking like Eminem.

[uwmspeccoll]

Happy Labor Day!

Today is Labor Day, the holiday where we celebrate the contributions of workers and the labor movement to our country. To celebrate, we are sharing some pages from the 1938 publication Labor Hi-Lites published by Union News Features. This pamphlet of cartoon/comic-like pages full of labor- and union-related factoids was compiled by lawyer, labor activist, and Hull House affiliate Charles P. Schwartz (1886-1975) and drawn by political/labor cartoonist Bernard Seaman (1913-1998).

Something unusual you may notice about these comic-book-esque panels is that the facts in each panel are generally unrelated to one another. They all focus on the theme of labor and labor unions, but otherwise don't seem to be grouped by any particular rhyme or reason.

We hope these labor factoids help remind you how far we have come in the struggle for fair labor practices and laws to enshrine our rights but also how much farther we have to go and in some ways how little has changed.

View more Labor Day posts.

-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

[ishizizzle]

What break up lol

[orangeisms]

two dead men in a dingy motel room

[bmpmp3]

can't run out of breath when you don't have breath phonemes

[the-cat-and-the-birdie]

Insisting Miles G. acts like Miles and isn't really hood/ghetto because 'Rio raised him right'-

Acting hood is not an indicator of bad parenting.

You can still be hood and a dork. You can have both parents involved in your life, raising you with dedication and kindness and still be hood.

Not all tough black guys are from fatherless homes with bad mothers.

Some (MOST) of them are just normal ass black guys with a mean resting face and little patience for disrespect.

Miles G can definitely act hood.

Now stop before I act hood

[sleepy-aletheas]

I wonder why people turn Kaveh into a tiny guy that needs to tilt his head back to look up at Alhaitham as if he's a head shorter. Or turn him into an overemotional wreck that can't solve anything himself. Or he's portrayed as someone that does one mistake after another, and is more irresponsible than a five year old with scissors. Or is really mean, if not outright cruel to Alhaitham. Or just emotionally oblivious to anyone and his own feelings.

My guy over here is an alumni with honors; he's as tall as Alhaitham (or taller if someone cares); he's loud in volume and emotions, but he very much can be quiet and calm; he's gullible in the sense of trying to help others, but that doesn't mean he cannot be smart; and he's a grown ass man, no matter how babygirl-ified he can be, he took care of himself and his mother as a child, he lived alone as a teenager, and he is capable of living with someone else and actually live, not just survive.

Kaveh is very pretty, and wears his heart on his sleeve, and he's gullible, and has his silly moments. But there is a thin line between that and turning him borderline hyper-feminine, and take away all his smarts, and leave no emotional intelligence. Like, that's a new character, I don't know who that is. And then making him codependent on someone else (who is also mischaracterized to hell and back btw) and take all the nuance he ever had, until it reaches past the point of silly head-canons for AUs, only for it to become a Thing for people.

One of the highlights of his personality is the duality. It's the understanding and the stubborn passion; the friendliness and pettiness on equal measure; the liveliness and regret. He's not an endless crying mess, nor is he an eternal sunshine. He's Kaveh, he has his moments, he has his passions, he has his growth, he has his burdens. Stripping that away from him leaves nothing but a faint impression that could easily be called by another name.

Just. Please. Release Kaveh from the shackles of old yaoi tropes, I'm begging. He deserves so so so much more.

(The thing is, it can be fun dabbling into these mischaracterizations every now and then. We can do deep character studies by amplifying a personality trait, or give/take some at all. We can overexaggerate for a plot, or for artwork. But there is a moment, where these mischaracterizations reach such a widespread chokehold, that it becomes real to people who couldn't care less, and they run with this new version. Suddenly all the canon nuance will be switched out for fanon, any meaning the character had for certain objects or people will be turned on their heads, because no one listens to the source anymore. The silly guy that makes people fall in love with him for him will be replaced by an imitation that will always feel off. It's such a delicate balance of indulgence and preservation of the original, it makes everything complicated. I don't even know if I make any sense anymore.)

[cat-bit]

[venacoeurva]

The bitter end

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