#Impower

[insidecroydon]

Cash-strapped council has spent £6.4m... to make more cuts

CROYDON IN CRISIS: After cuts to services of £137m in four years and with this year’s council budget out of control, official figures show that the council is spending millions more to find out how to save money. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES More for less: council CEO Katherine Kerswell Payments by Croydon’s cash-strapped council to just three major firms of consultants, brought in to Fisher’s…

[blonde-and-cat-suc]

Catra being anxious and having panic attacks over the bad things she did is actually counter productive to any hypothetical scenario where she is self reflecting and/or receiving constructive criticism.

Her potentially having crippling anxiety over being an asshole in the past PREVENTS and/or DELAYS any changes she might potentially make.

Making this character spiral over moral dilemmas does not inherently mean she’s actively working to change her ways. Her being afraid of facing her badness does not make her good; it simply means she has anxieties toward constructive criticism/dialogue.

[milkflavouredchair]

I was going to draw Julian like I drew Randy but I COULDN'T because all the reference photos I found had their hands in their pockets and THAT'S NOT WHAT I NEED RIGHT NOW.

So here's him just... Like this.

Also I don't know if to make him classic red or have him purple (it's probably going to be red but akjdisisjsjdisk IM NOT SURE YET)

[lilybug-02]

When I see confident women 💕

[jam-does-audio]

My 1 impression of him before this was him being biphobic/spreading historic bi erasure + saying lots of things that are easily proven false as if they were true. I just thought everyone knew he was making that stuff up and had a fan base of purposely ignorant people.

It is so disheartening learning no, people genuinely know so little about queer history they have fallen for very obvious lies. It's not your fault for being lied to, but I think this should be a sign we all need to learn/teach more queer history for everyone. Because when we don't what is shown gets tainted by very dangerous aspects and bias.

I love all the dunking on James Somerton but I don’t think we’ve focused enough on all his lesbophobic rhetoric because the things he says are genuinely so astoundingly ahistorical and insensitive and it infuriates me that he was allowed to get away with it so long.

He literally said lesbians didn’t face police violence on the same scale as gay men when that’s just demonstrably untrue. Lesbians, ESPECIALLY butch, GNC, and trans lesbians, faced MASSIVE amounts of police violence AND STILL DO and if he gave a single shit about like. Women as people. Or even just LGBT history in general as he so proclaims to care about, he would know that. I’m going to start beating people to death with copies of Stone Butch Blues until they fucking listen

And I’d really love to know which fucking planet he lives on where lesbians apparently have all this great representation, and where we as lesbians are allowed to write our own stories, because I’m really not seeing that pretty much anywhere in mainstream media. I’m still seeing lesbians portrayed in stereotypical or fetishistic ways, and that’s when I see us portrayed at all. And yes cartoons are great and fine but there is so painfully little lesbian representation written by lesbians geared primarily towards adults.

But at this point, the wider community’s general lack of a reaction to lesbophobia in their ranks disappoints but doesn’t surprise me. It’s sad and somewhat astonishing that he’s escaped accountability for his lesbophobic comments up to this point, but again, not surprising. We need to stop letting our community, especially people like James Somerton who get held up as voices for the community, get away with lesbophobia.

[theuiversee]

Let go and Be creative

[solidaritygaming-fanblog]

I think Jimmy should win wildlife and get to Canary for the rest of the life series that come after, except it's, like, his choice. He's impowering himself...

"I've seen the end of this, and good God I don't want to see it again. Instead I shall retake my old title, and take the brunt of the mental torture, just to spare everyone else from this curse. I shall sing my songs of warning and breath in the poison so everyone may have the chance to reach their full potential. Give me your pain, I will take it away. Do not worry for me."

GRAHHBJJ

[insidecroydon]

Council consultants take six months to discover the obvious

CROYDON IN CRISIS: It has taken external consultants almost six months to discover that the council’s website is ‘jargon-heavy’, ‘corporate’ and ‘difficult’ to use. Those findings have cost the cash-strapped council at least £1m. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES ‘Transformation’: council CEO Katherine Kerswell, addressing the staff webinar last week After being paid at least £1million of money that…

[nicoandindy]

Next stream, just you wait.

@mcytblrsexymen this is how joe hills can win

In this series x

[pythoness94]

Double standard

I see a lot of people going, "I need El to use Mike's words against him in season 5." And while I agree to some degree, I see people treating Mike like he's the devil and deserves to be alone or dead and like El was just the PERFECT Girlfriend. That makes me side eye some people because, no hate to El I love her, but her treatment of Mike in season 3 was egregious. While we love season 3 for the Byler angst, some things get a little brushed under the rug. Like, oh I don't know, El's, "i make my own rules. " That was insane, it's played off has some "OWN " on Mike but people forget that El was literally spying on him and never apologized. It's played off as a joke when Mike goes. "What if I was taking a shit?" and Max says, "but you weren't!" but the fact of the matter is. What if he was? What if he was using the bathroom, or taking a shower, or just having a private or vulnerable moment of any sort. Like, take a second and just imagine. Imagine if Mike was having a private moment and El and Max saw that, imagine what the fall out would be. El is PISSED about Mike saying that but imagine how mad Mike would be if they saw him in a private moment. El is all about friends don't lie so it would come out eventually. Also, not only Mike but Lucas and Will too. What if Lucas was having a vulnerable moment talking to his closest friends. Lucas knew El for like two years MAX at this point and Max for less then. Sure, he's dating her but what if he wants to talk to people, he's known since second grade and know him better than anyone else? What if Will was talking about his time in the upside down? Will doesn't know El or Max very well at this point, of course he wants to talk to his best friends and not some people he knows by association. What if Will was having a flashback and wanted to confide in his closest people.

There is a lot of variables that just get lost because this was the season where El was coming into her own. Yes, El needed to learn how to "make her own rules," and not just mindlessly follow what anyone says. However, she doesn't learn that her "rules" don't override anyone else's. Mike's boundaries aren't something to be tossed aside like trash because El needed to have her impowering moment. Mike was forced to lie by Hopper, (Who is a grown ass adult and pisses me off so much I can write 50 paragraphs over how much he made me mad in season 3, that season single handedly made me hate him for so long.) and while his actions afterward were iffy, he didn't deserve to be treated like that. Also! What he said wasn't meant for El to hear. He was saying something to get off his chest so he could talk to El with a clearer mind, which he tried to in Sauna test and El brushed him off with that "I make my own rules," line. The only reason El didn't listen to Mike in that moment was because of a private moment neither Max or El was meant to hear. Also, if anyone says "Just because they didn't mean to hear it doesn't make it okay." look me in my eyes through your screen and tell me you never said something because you were frustrated with how someone was acting in the heat of the moment and regreted it later. Tell me you never said anything to your best friends that was a bit mean about someone. Tell me that, and I'll call you a liar because I KNOW you're lying and you know you're lying.

So, what I'm saying is, role reversal, i want Mike to ALSO use El's words against her. Like if El says, "I care about you," at some point, showing she's grown from her season 4 counterpart. I want Mike to say "I make my own rules," showing he's grown from his season 4 counterpart. Also think about how neat it would be. Mike thinks he's Lois lane while El is superman. Imagine, what helped El grow into her own helps Mike grow into his. Like, El thinks she needs to protect him and has Mike goes to charge into danger, El tries to hold him back, telling him he can't. And while a previous season Mike would listen, Mike tugs away and says. "I make my own rules. " Before running into the fire. It would how neither Mike nor El need each other. El doesn't need to protect Mike and Mike doesn't need to be protected. It shows that El doesn't have to be a weapon, that her super powers aren't all is, and that Mike isn't just "El's boyfriend." that he doesn't live to love her, but to also love himself. So, basically, i'm saying let's have BOTH.

[evenmorefatallyobsessed]

Any chance you'll reverse things a bit and make models of Jaune as a BNHA or DC hero to go with his waifus from those settings?

I've actually thought of that before, several times, in time I def will, but side note, Jaune in My Hero can kinda break the game if you think about it. Like imagine him using Aura in their world and being the sole person capable of determining who unlocks it.

Like that's broken, because he would only give it to people he trusted not to be bad guys, so ALL Might With Aura, would prolong his hero career and with Jaune's healing my even be able to heal him completely (There's no way they can't make artificial organs)

Also Deku! Like Imagine Jaune seeing so much of himself in Midoriya and unlocking his aura, and then Deku unlocking a combat semblance. Hell he could make armor and fight.

I could see Mei wanting to learn about aura since she could use it as a energy source.

And of course everyone assumes it's a quirk, but in reality it's not, like One For All comes and tries to steal it only for it to just... not work.

Shigaraki's quirk needs to eat through Jaune's aura before it can disintegrate him. At which point which is faster, shigaraki's quirk's ability to breakdown his target or Jaune's amplified aura's recovery rate.

Shit, can you imagine how much more of a absolute tank Kirishima would be with aura on top of 'Unbreakable'. The fact that aura heals the body would make the physical damage one's quirk does to a user be mitigated for at least a time.

And all Jaune has to do is not tell people how to unlock their own auras. He can just unlock them and pretend it's a part of his quirk that only he gets to decide who he impowers.

With DC... Just, batman with aura, Utterly broken.

[anna-the-undertaker]

MC: Dia, I admire your efforts to bring forth peace between the three realms, but I'm gonna have to agree with Belphie. Humanity sucks.

Diavolo, shocked: Can you elaborate?

MC: Well.... We ruined the planet. we dispossessed, imprisioned, and slaughtered First Nations people. We inforced gender roles. We've systemized rape, racism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, classism, and unsustainable food industries. We've allowed fossil fuel companies to operate our elected officials like ventriloquist dummies from hell, raping our planet for economic gain. We turned our prisons and military into big business. We sold our land, our resources, our water table, and the port of Darwin to the chinese, who we are now in a trade war with. We impowered the church to such a degree that it is now just a tax haven for pedophiles, with the ability to manipulate government policy and mandate legislation on womens bodies without their consent. And we bred dogs to a superficial asthetic level so they can no longer breathe. But pugs are cute the way they suffocate when they walk. Their eyes are pointed in different directions because they're asking both owners to kill them.

Belphie in the distance: Ha!

[ravensegg13]

Mother Hel, thank you for your support. Thank you for accepting me no matter what because death accepts everyone and everything. Thank you for not judging me and for giving me guidance through ignorance. Thank you for being the mother that I've always needed, especially now, and thank you for your understanding.

Thank you for standing by me no matter what. It's truly a comfort knowing that lady death has her skeletal hand on my shoulder whenever I need her. Thank you for constantly telling me what I have to live for and that it's not nearly my time, not for years and years. Thank you for allowing my strangeness to be welcome in your arms, for allowing me to fully let loose with my interests. Thank you for humbling me, for impowering me, and for inspiring me.

Thank you, lady Hel, for being there when no one else was. For showing me that it's okay to be sad, or angry, or depressed, or frustrated.

Thank you, my mother, my lady of death, for showing me that being alive and being human is worth more than anything in this god-awful world. Thank you, Hel, thank you.

[toritsukaheartswomensrightsxx]

About me!!!

Name: toritsuka (your future boyfriend🙏🏻🥹)

Sex: yes please🤤

Hobbies: defending woman’s rights, reading feminist literature, appreciating the female form.✊🏻

Best friend ever: saiki (5’5 LMAOOOO)

Hmu if you are a wonderful beautiful impowered female 😉

[scotianostra]

This post is a carbon copy of the one I just posted on my Facebbook timeline, so is not directed to any of my followers here, who have a better attention span than the normal Facebook user.

“What force or guile could not subdue Thro’ many warlike ages Is wrought now by a coward few For hireling traitor’s wages.”

A line from Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation by Rabbie Burns.

They say 'You have to know the past to understand the present.' That is so true when it comes to the "Act of Union" which from the beginning was an uneven union, through the years it became moreso, only since devolution have we, as a country have began to gain SOME powers back, in my opinion the start of the Devolution process has only one end, Independence, I have argued many times thtat it is inevitable.

Anyway, I know the majority of my friends on Facebook have now ducked out of this post, merely because I am into the second paragraph and their attention span can't handle that, for those still with me I shall use, for the second time today the words "Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin"

On August 5th 1704, the Act of Security was passed by the Scottish Parliament.

This is a political hot potato even 216 years after the act was passed.

After the “Glorious Revolution” in 1689 placed William and Mary on the throne a problem started to manifest itself, they did not produce heirs so the crown passed to Anne, sister of Mary and daughter of the deposed King James VII and II, Queen Anne was the last Stuart monarch.

In 1701, after the last of Anne’s surviving children died, the English Parliament passed the Act of Settlement to ensure a protestant monarch, it stated that even if converted to Catholicism, they would forfeit the crown. There was also a clause that stopped Catholics being MP’s which was amended in 1829, BUT! A law is still in place that a Catholic cannot be Prime Minister. Now people can argue the fact that the clown in number ten was baptised a Catholic, but he was confirmed and brought up in the Anglican faith.

Back to the years in question…..

So at this time the strongest claimants to the throne by blood were Roman Catholic but they were not allowed to inherit because of their religion. Under the English Act, it was decided that on Anne’s death the throne should pass to Princess Sophia of Hanover who was descended from James VI and I. In the end Sophie croaked before she could be crowned, so in 1715 the crown was gifted to the German George Louis, That’s George I to you and i, he couldn’t peak a word of English, but anything was better than letting a Catholic retake the crown eh!

Rewind back a few years and us Scots were angry at not being consulted, the Scottish Parliament passed two acts asserting their right to decide Scotland’s future, bear in mind this was three years before the Act of Union.

In 1703 as a reaction to being brought into England’s war with France over the succession to the Spanish throne, the Scottish Parliament passed the “Act anent Peace and War” which declared Scotland’s intention to pursue our own foreign policy and not be dragged into further European wars by England.

The 1704 act stated that unless Scotland was granted freedom of trade, Parliament would settle the British succession on a different monarch from England. From the English point of view, these acts opened up the possible return of a Stuart king to the throne and a stronger alliance between France and Scotland against England.

This is an extract from the Act of Security, the exact wording on the document, not my spelling in case anyone is wondering…..

… upon the said Death of Her Majesty, without Heirs of her Body… the foresaid Estates of Parliament… are hereby Authorized and Impowered, to Nominate and Declare the Successor to the Imperial Crown of this Realm, and to Settle the succession therof… being always of the Royal Line of Scotland and of the true Protestant Religion.

Providing always that the same be not successors to the Crown of England, unless… there be such conditions of Government settled as may secure the Honour and Sovereignty of this Crown and Kingdom; the Freedom, Frequency and Power of Parliament; Religion; and Liberty and Trade of the Nation from English or any Forreign Influence…

The next year the English hit back with The Alien Act, which threatened the Scottish Parliament - it demanded that the Scottish Parliament accept the Hanoverian succession and begin negotiations for full Union by Christmas 1705. If this did not happen, Scots who owned land in England or who were regular traders, would lose their right to do so. Scots would therefore be treated as foreigners in England.

This all led to the traitors in the Scottish Parliament being “bought and sold for English gold” and the Union of the Parliaments in 1707.

[jessieloveasmr]

I'm hyperfocusing today! How the hell does the Department have any funding, like at all? Magical items aren't a thing in the redacted world so they can't be taxing the magical population for things like potions and talismans and such. And Lasko told up all magical education is funded by the Department so it's not they get a cut from student loans. What do they have a deal with the non-impowered government to get a portion of their funding? How many people in the unimpowered government would need to know the secret for that to work? The more I think about the Department, the less sense it makes. WHY DON'T THEY CARE MORE ABOUT HUMANBORNS WHEN HUMANBORNS ARE ARGUABLY THE BIGGEST THREAT TO CORVERT?!