#Thomas King

[damnesdelamer]

DECOLONIAL ACTION READING

I recently compiled these to add to a comrade’s post about Land Back, but actually I think they deserve their own post as well.

Amílcar Cabral - Return To The Source

Frantz Fanon - The Wretched Of The Earth

Hô Chí Minh - archive via Marxists.org

Thomas King - The Inconvenient Indian

Abdullah Öcalan - Women’s Revolution & Democratic Confederalism

Edward Said - The Question Of Palestine

Thomas Sankara - archive via Marxists.org

Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang - Decolonization Is Not A Metaphor

Other key names in postcolonial theory and its practical application include:

Sara Ahmed

Homi K. Bhabha

Aimé Césaire

Albert Memmi

Jean-Paul Sartre

Léopold Séder Senghor

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

All of these will help you interpret and confront the realities of colonisation, and ideally help us understand and extend solidarity to comrades around the globe. Decolonise your mind, and don't stop there!

[nix-nihili]

dead boy detectives textposts as starboarded (and other) messages from the dead gay detectives server part five!!

and then, a story told in way too many parts:

1, 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 9, 10, 13

6, 7, 11, 12 by @idliketobeatree

8 by @aletterinthenameofsanity

14 by @bitterdesert

[dandeliannes]

EDWIN PAYNE: "YOU ARE MY PAIN, DIVINE, DIVINE"

my very first dbd edit !!!

i really love how edwin interacted with the other characters in this show. it was originally supposed to be just a painland/payneland edit but i wanted more so i added everyone 😭 really really love how this turned out ! this show is so special to me ♥

also thought that come back to me was perfect for edwin so i just had to make this :')

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Thomas King and Monty Finch (Actor/Accidental Pretty Woman AU)

The simple fact of the matter is that Monty has never once spent a single dime of the money that sits under that loose floorboard in his room.

It’s not the sort of justification that he could ever use in a court of law. No, your Honor, I took the money but I didn’t spend it, that means I didn’t do the crime, so I can’t do the time. 

After all, using money has nothing to do with whether you earned it. Courts don’t give a shit about what you do with the cash, only how you got it in the first place.

But Monty’s problem has never been with the courts. It’s never been with the letter of the law. He’s done so many things over the years that could and should have landed him in prison and yet they didn’t.

No, the problem has always been with his mother. With the fact that he can’t be like her. With the fact that he can’t be her.

-aletterinthenameofsanity, people think i'm pretty (so i'll sell my pride instead)

Why am I feeling so guilty? Why am I holding my breath? Worried about everyone but me And I just keep losing myself

Tell me it's nothing Try to convince me That I'm not drowning

-The Civil Wars, Falling

@nix-nihili @sapphic-corgi @ghostofthegallows

@icarus-n-flames @petvampire @sasakisyndrome

@idliketobeatree @cairngorm-ard @paradox-brody-chase

@saffirez @every-moment-a-different-sound

@e-payne @freudensteins-monster

[amixofpixels]

The power of the redheads compels you.

Okie pokie, down here is where I talk stuff and why I have founders again. I had thoughts that turned into decisions to completely reboot my tree. Not like last time, but a complete redo. I wasn't happy with it, I changed rulings and again, was frustrated by the decisions of former me.

My trio of Daisy, Argus and Vivian remained. I switched Max for Thomas as I do honestly enjoy his challenge, and I want to get to it early. Charlie was a flip between him and Pitch, but I would honestly, like a small legacy that isn't a second pgc in this round. 😅

I know, I know, I am a messy kind of player, but heyo, it is my blog and my game. Some of these babies got minor tweaks, mainly the redheads got even more ginger, minus Charlie. He stayed the same. Argus and Daisy got a few new tweaks too.

So, long story short, all of my blog minus this and the favourites, oh and any random makes I did and if I had spouses made for me they are still around too, is non existent anymore,. I may post new kids, I may not, I will post whatever I feel like. Bye now.

[k-wame]

THOMAS KING & SUNI SHARMA Emmerdale · 05.10.2023 » 08.02.2024

[lizzieplaysgrass]

From the top left we have Len, King, Jack, and Queen.

[dannymillerfansite]

Emmerdale 04.04.24 Part 3

Aaron returns from his appointment with Liam to find Ruby mid rant at Chas and his family as a mortified Caleb looks on, Ruby's feeling like she's in competition with them all for Caleb's love & affection, she's desperate, deranged & trying to fight for him.

Aaron listens bewildered as Ruby is going nuclear on his family, as Caleb tries to intervene and pull her away she lashes out at him & accidentally elbows Chas in the chest who hasn't even fully recovered from her double mastectomy surgery in the area yet.

As Chas is recovering from the elbow to the chest courtesy of Ruby, Aaron insists he's calling Liam to look over her, despite her protests as Caleb gives Ruby her marching orders.

Aaron is now helping look after the pub, while Charity is looking after his mum in the back after what happened earlier. Belle is upset about the 'break in' & Tom is comforting her, he bizarrely asks Aaron where Charity is as Aaron is getting him in a pint.

[manwalksintobar]

COYOTE GOES TO TORONTO  // Thomas King

Coyote went to Toronto      to become famous. It's TRUE      that's what she said.

She walked up and down those      FAMOUS streets. And she stood on those      FAMOUS corners. Waiting.

But nothing happened.

so. Coyote got hungry and went      into a restaurant      to EAT.

But there was a long line      and Coyote could see it was      because the restaurant was      painted a BEAUTIFUL green.

so. Coyote painted herself GREEN      and she went back to the rez      to show the people what an      UP TO DATE Coyote she was.

And she STOOD on the rez      and waited. So that RAIN came along. So that WIND came along. So that HAIL came along. So that SNOW came along.

And that PAINT began to peel      and pretty soon the people      came along and says, HEY, that's Coyote, by golly      she's not looking too good.

And the women brought her FOOD. And the men brushed her COAT      until it was shiney. And the children PLAYED with      their friend.

I been to Toronto Coyote tells      the people. Yes, everybody says, We can SEE that.

[emmerdale-character-bracket]

Round 1

[sundaynightlive]

Things I highlighted in ‘The Back of the Turtle’ by Thomas King pt 1 (yes, my tik tok is @librarysundae)

[fckbatmanhiskidsareminenow]

multilingual batkids. they learn each others languages so they can mix and match. for example:

tim in french: have you figured out how we’re gonna tell b we’re not going to that gala yet?

damian in arabic: no i thought that was thomas’ job?

duke french: me? no jason said he’d do something

jason in arabic: hey don’t drag me into this!

dick in romani: i’m gonna kill him i really i am

steph in russian: who are we killing?

dick in english: ah! nobody! wait i didn’t know you spoke romani

tim in greek: you’re an asshole

jason in english: wait my greek is rusty say it again slowly

tim in greek: you’re an asshole

jason: …. you motherfucker

cass signing: nice drawing

damian in chinese: thank you

dick yelling at bruce about something he did

jason in spanish: what language is he speaking right now?

tim also in spanish: uh all of them i think

jason: does bruce even know-

tim: no he doesn’t

[courtneywhitless]

Thomas King - One Good Story, that One

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Thomas King and Monty Finch (Actor/Accidental Pretty Woman AU: Chapter 5)

Thomas isn’t known for his impulse control- or at least that’s how he’s justifying it as he reaches out, because he can’t resist, and tucks a few strands Monty’s damp hair behind his ear. That finally gets him Monty’s attention, as Monty’s gaze jerks up to meet Thomas’. 

“Sorry,” Monty says, and drops his phone back on the nightstand, his body already adjusting back to something more practiced, something more ready to get down to business again, and Thomas shouldn’t be feeling odd that the hooker he hired is actually moving to, you know, do his job. His expression shifts into something flirtatious as he reaches a hand to Thomas’ waist and says, “Let's get back to what we came here for.”

And sure, Monty is sexy when he’s trying to be. He knows his assets and he’s not even a little bit shy about exploiting them, which Thomas can appreciate. But god, there’s something irresistible about Monty when he’s not trying, when he’s sprawled out on Thomas’ bed like it’s his own, languid and unselfconscious. It’s jarring to see the transformation in real time, that lightning quick moment of tenderness, Monty’s hair soft and damp under Thomas’ fingers, wiped away as easily as hearts drawn in fogged-up car windows. 

God, it’s a stupid, dangerous thing, caring this much about the guy you're literally paying to get off with you. There is something heavy pressing against the inside of Thomas’ ribs, a feeling he doesn’t like at all. He needs to do something to get rid of it, needs it gone, like, yesterday. And maybe that’s his excuse, for saying something as monumentally inappropriate as, “Your mother- does she, like, need money for her hospital bills?”

Monty's expression shutters and fuck, Thomas can't help but mourn the loss of Monty from a moment ago, loose and relaxed and at ease. “Not that it's any of your fucking business, Mr. Hollywood-Star-Up-Your-Fucking-Ass, but no, she has plenty of money to take care of herself.”

-aletterinthenameofsanity, anything_thats_rock_and_roll, people think i'm pretty (i'll sell my pride instead)

Bedsheets, no clothes

Touch me like nobody else does

Lovely to just lay here with you

You're kinda cute, and I would say all of this

But I don't wanna ruin the moment

Lovely to sit between comfort and chaos

But it's over

Then you're driving me home

And it feels like the start of a movie I've seen before

-Lizzy McAlpine, ceilings

And once again @anything-thats-rock-and-roll thank you for all of your help with this chapter- it would not exist without all of your help/writing/additions/edits/emotional support/etc.!

@nix-nihili @sapphic-corgi @ghostofthegallows

@icarus-n-flames @petvampire @sasakisyndrome

@idliketobeatree @cairngorm-ard @paradox-brody-chase

@saffirez @every-moment-a-different-sound

@e-payne @freudensteins-monster

[ditzybat]

non-gotham locals think the most prolific bat-villain is the joker, or scarecrow, even the riddler — or any of their assorted highly dangerous deluded rogues.

but a real gothamite knows how big a pain in the ass condiment king is, in fact, urban legend says that the bat kids have formed a pact to not tell batman if condiment king just happens to turn up… at the bottom of gotham harbor.

[shhhhimwatchingthis]

Sort of bums me out that so many people didn't seem to Get the Cat King so here are my thoughts:

So let's start with Edwin's crime. He uses something the cat desires (a sardine) to lure the cat to him and then uses an enchanted string to trap the cat with magic. He demands the answer to a question in exchange for its release. Edwin knows it is dangerous to use magic on a cat, that it violates Rules but he does it anyway.

Binding a creature and agreeing to set them free under a certain condition is very Classic Fairytale. its also a favourite trope of Neil Gaiman's (he did not write this show but his influence is there). In both the Sandman and his novel Stardust (and the film adaptation) trapping a creature with magic and demanding a task/favour in exchange for their freedom is an extremely important plot point. Edwin binding a cat and demanding an answer in exchange is exactly in line with this Fairytale trope

And so is the Cat Kings response. The Cat King is a trickster. What he does to Edwin is exactly what Edwin did to one of his subjects. He entices Edwin, he binds him with magic and when Edwin demands to be free he turns his own words against him "why all the fuss for one little spell?" Edwin did something wrong. He imposed his will/magic on another creature and the Cat King is punishing him for it in a way that is poetic. Its fairytale. its trickster. its classic.

I've also seen people complain that the task Edwin was given 'count all the cats' is 'impossible'...except its fucking not. Edwin does it. He does it so well he actually BEATS the Cat King ("you didn't count yourself" Are.You.Kidding.Me. Classic!Fairytale!Vibes!)

The Cat Kings choice to bind Edwin to Port Townsend is good on so many levels. From a storytelling perspective it forces characters who can travel anywhere in the world to stay in one place, and increases the stakes for these characters who are supposed to be on the run. From a genre perspective...its an excellent use of fairytale tropes using both Rules of magic, a protagonist who is unkind to a seemingly weak creature who is punished by a more powerful law, a binding, a task to complete, etc

Which just leaves the character perspective which it ALSO does really fucking well and introduces the final aspect to the Cat Kings character. He's seductive. He is responsible for Edwin, 100 years old ghost boy, finally unpacking his internalized homophpbia. he is the catalyst (cat pun not intended)

He pushes Edwin, challenges him, at times literally forces the truth out of Edwin, but he really never does violate his consent. Significantly Edwin is attracted to him, like its an important part of his character that he is. He may not like the Cat King but he is attracted to him!

The Cat King is such a great example of a trickster, a morally grey character who imposes a sense of justice on Edwin after he crosses a line, but also has his own selfish interests and meddles. Hes so important to the plot of the show, to Edwin's character arc, to the genre.

And he's just fun. Unapologetically queer, powerful, complicated. Silly little outfits. Petty cat behavior. Deep heart.

Some of you just didn't get it. And I'm sorry for you. because the Cat King is Excellent actually.