#but the system shouldnt be broken

[imanflexington]

I really wish I was more punk. The establishment should be pushed back on every shape and form, unfortunately I think humans work great in a structured society, and I'll therefore be forever punkish.

[backseatloversz]

"you NEED to vote the lesser of two evils" is an insane thing to say when theres already the blood of tens of thousands on bidens hands. im only NINETEEN it is NOT my fault american democracy is a joke and i REFUSE to let people make me feel like it is!!!!!! you can not fucking guilt me into saying anything but a vote for biden is a vote for trump!!!!!! thats now how it fucking works!!!!!! none of this is MY FAULT!!!!!!!!!!!! dont get mad at me!!!!!!!!!!!

[rainbows-fanfics]

The Barnes & Noble app stopped working for me ever since the beginning of July, and I had to physically talk with someone over the phone just to report the bug in my app since no one could help me via email. The issue never got fixed and rendered my app unusable. So I finally uninstalled it today.

Cancelled my pre-order for Sally's Lament from them, probably going to get it from Amazon or ThriftBooks instead, it's just way more cheaper and it doesn't look like the B&N Exclusive is going to offer anything special.

I don't think I'll be buying anything from B&N anymore, come to think of it.

[dandunn]

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dont read this

[echidnana]

ok just something we have to vent somewhere because otherwise it will make us feel insane but the dad said today that the reason for financial hardship in the united states is because of "illegal immigration". what a batshit take

[roseyjustice]

An.ders' romance was the first I went for and it's so sweet and important to me tbh

Like I have so many thoughts about him and his character and his role, like I he's so complex and understandable !!

I want to gnaw on him like a chew toy raauhh

[transsexula]

Clearly we have fully read my response and didn't just get pissed about the first point that we didn't like!

(Yikes. Love the cut off right before the full explanation! I hate that I have to try to explain this shit but here I go-)

Let's make it simpler:

Vote for someone you would trust to elect your representatives. Ignoring state elections is what costs us the most- as it gives way to nation-level law changes.

Obviously you won't get a prefect candidate- I don't think that may ever be possible. But who is the best option? Who are they most likely to bring in?

Like goddamn. The whole point of this stupid ass system is to vote in people you trust to appoint others to certain positions. It's to bring someone in you trust to pass laws that YOU want. You are voting for your representatives when you are voting for your local government.

Do I believe they should be able to appoint people at will? Personally? No! I want that to be up to US directly. DIRECTLY being the key.

I get what you're trying to say with the initial post. If you actually read my response you would know that. But there is a HUGE problem with acting like your vote does jack shit, when it literally elects the little guys that do the big things for you.

Again. I never said I like or support this system. But the way you guys talk about it is like you can't ever get shit done. Like it's worthless to even try. What makes you think thats a good way to go about it???? All that does is discourage people from voting to make those small changes.

Like- I would rather put someone in office who won't make it illegal to protest in my area. That way I'm 5% safer in this area when I'm at a demonstration.

I would rather put someone in office who will actively fight old ass horrible abortion laws, than someone who unquestionably signs them into law.

here's the thing: if you're not a member of the electoral college in the USA, it literally does not matter if you vote. electoral college members take the popular vote numbers, officially, as a *suggestion*, and they are full within their rights to vote against it (historically this was justified using the potential case of the ballots being collected just prior to some major event that would clearly invalidate a prior vote, such as a candidate being killed by another candidate). it literally only matters whether these unelected 538 people (unrelatedly, the USA has ~700 billionaires) vote for a given party. literally everyone in the country could vote for one candidate, but if those 538 people decided they didn't want to, they could just elect the other one, and it would be perfectly within the bounds of the US's constitution and so-called bourgeois 'democracy'.

Lenin said:

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for the slave-owners.

[castielsprostate]

also i would like to mention I drew a reverse death today and sometimes i hate the cards

[ganondoodle]

botw2 (totk rewritten) ganondorf design post 2.0

(the better, less rambly one, bc i shouldnt be allowed to write when its past midnight- not deleting the other one bc i am a little whimp and am getting so bad decision paralysis over it its made me cry, this one is more heavy on design and the basic plot of the game)

Basic plot summary (shorter version- longer version at the end):

sheikah in service of the ancient queen discover remnants of the past while excavating for luminous stones, these remnants were being defended/kept safe by the sonau (engl. zonai) little shy cave dwellers who have kept these last ruins save but secret bc they thought it could lead to disaster seemingly aware of the ever repeating cycle and believing it to be not divine but a self perpetuated one built on the one sided history of the past, which is a threat to hyrule and its golden legacy; these ruins speak of a world threatening evil being born as the king of the gerudo, the ancient queen thus plans to lure him into a trap to seal him away before he can realize his destiny, he learns of it however and is forced to confront the queen through breaking into the castle, she sees that as a confirmation of her fears and it escalates into a battle between them that kills everyone that was in the throne room except the young princess- the queen sealing ganondorf as the room and parts of the castle is destroyed and buried beneath the ground. (the game largely revolves around finding clues about it, especially in sealed off caves of the now long extinct sonau)

except for the scene in the throne room nothing is clearly shown of the past, but it is the background behind everything

(zeldas main struggle in this game will be having to come to terms with her families legacy, what she thought and was taught not being true, the dark secrets buried everywhere, and perhaps trying to be better, now that all of hyrules been destroyed and the lands and people yet survived)

Mummy version:

what you discover beneath hyrule castle after going to investigate the failing of shiekah tech all around, it is a clearly shiekah made system all around, though the chamber you find him in was built around him after the sealing, it being implied they used his spiritual power as the main energy source for all future tech, once disturbed the seal breaks and fuses to zelda (similar to the og trailer with link) he wakes up, the shock of suddendly being back in this broken body leading him to rather viciously attack them, the mastersword breaks and link loses his arm, the cave crumbles and zelda flees as she drags link behind her- the cataclysm happens and links gets his shiekah tech arm.

(in the little sketch there is a very roughly approximation to where ganondorf is located at the start and mid game fight, the arena you fought calamity ganon in is in reality a sphere with the lower half being an energy reserve for the royal family and further down the mechanism for the rising pillars from botw, its located between the castle and ganondorfs chamber, to quickly react when the malice build up has reached a critical point to detect immediately and start the defense programm- its all broken but still explorable after the mid point)

ganondorfs body is very damanged, the hole in his chest from the seal leads into an empty cavity, the ribs broken and bent in a swirling pattern like a gravitational pull, his right arm was desolved over time as he defensively grabbed the queens arm in his last moments; the face is more bone and there are no eyes, he does not move his jaw to speak, his hair is more like smoke after a certain amount of progression in the game the castle that fell into the underground (current hyrule castle) bc of the cataclysm is made accessible, as you venture in link is grabbed and pulled further in, seperated from zelda, she later rejoins you in the dungeon, acting all normal unless you are observant and see her using her left arm only and walking past things she normally wouldnt- at a certain point once the camera is not watching her, she suddendly starts to attack you viciously, as it was ganondorf in disguise- after the second half the real zelda breaks into the room with your friends in tow (yunobo, teba+tulin, riju, sidon) and he drops the disguise, the rest of the fight is against his mummy form, at the end of which is the cutscene of the confrontation with the queen, it is the only time you are given a direct window into the past. (plus its shown in that cutscene he has the ability to disguise himself as others, but only AFTER you have encountered it as to not ruin that moment..)

post revival/restored: this is how he appears at the end of the game, the last dungeon is within the forgotten plateau, there is a longer cutscene of zelda and him talking while tension builds until the fight begins once your friends arrive (sidenote, this is also only unlocked with more progression, including the koga and deku dungeon and the master sword restoration quest)

this design isnt fully how he was in the past but fit to the circumstances now, but restored to the best of his abilities; he is older (50+) with greying hair; i wanted to make him look both strong and a little worn out, but with a vibe of incredible power he is well aware of as well as warmth the outfit is elaborate but mostly aimed to be practical, its easy to see he used to be a proud king, and still is, even if no one remembers him anymore; he wears a little armguard on the left to for deflecting purposes, his belt is also switched around to how it was originally to make drawing his sword easier with the left arm; a little wooden boar figurine carved from the wood of long extinct trees hangs on his belt, a gift from one of his daughters perhaps he wields magic with ease and his moveset makes it clear just how good of a fighter he is, even after thousands and thousands of years without motion, his moves are controlled and practiced- the magic is also NOT just based on malice, malice might be what keeps him alive now but its not all he is, he wields lightning and simpler moves with other elements, perhaps implying that magic was more widely spread back in his day .. or he has learned to wield it in part to the repeated interactions with the other races (both in the past, and as calamity ganon- it is made clear that whatever the malice eyes saw he saw as well, (also explaining how he can speak their languages) though it is also implied that the calamity as such is not fully his own making, but something familiar reaching out to try and help him break free -NOT anythign demise related, leave the guy alone- but going with the idea of the calamity having been what remained of oot ganondorf after degrading over all this time- a kindred spirit reaching out to take revenge together in a way

Beast Ganon(dorf), normal

Beast Ganon(dorf), charging magic

phase 3 of the end fight, after phase two he takes out all your friends and tranforms, chasing you (link and zelda) through the ground until breaking through to the surface of the plateau where this battle takes place.

his design is loosely inspired by the smoke version of calamity ganon and twilight princess beast ganon, his face and teeth mostly from the calamity- his back is split open with a shiekah tech spine, given his connection to it via being its power source as well as overtaking it in botw, reddish smoke eminating from it, hes has 5 limbs as he is still missing his right arm, the big dark arms are made of malice and in phase 2 he takes one of those big arms to 'rebuild' his missing one, though it is not as well usable like a real one, his braids carry over thoguh now dark black, when charging magic it lights up in waves; the tail is flat and he moves not all that beast like, more draconic really, able to float for short periods of time and 'swim' through the ground reminiscent of moldoras his attack pattern is changed to fit this appearance, but he still uses magic in varying ways, thouhg swiping and biting after you as well, he will sometimes go for zelda directly but she will usually protect herself in a bubble of light- typical weak point is within the mouth though he makes sure to not give you alot of opportunities, typical staggers migth include destroying a front leg (since those are all made of goo)

my aim with this was to create a beast version both familiar and very different, with the vibe of, this is still him, just another appearance, though angered and more agressive he has not lost himself, perhaps even enjoying it a little, feeling a little more alive again, though he does not care for this world, he is a stranger here, this isnt his time and all that ever mattered to him is long gone, destroyed or forgotten, now all that matters to him is to end zeldas rotten family

Phase 2 and Phase 4 (out of order bc big boar lad wouldnt fit on here)

in phase 2 he 'rebuilds' his missing arm with one taken from the boar form, as it appears afterwards, he changes his sword into a larger one during the second half and can change its hilt length on the fly, making it both a big sword and a spear- the malice arm will be used to mimic some of links abilities, like the hookshot, grabbing onto you from afar, pulling you closer or flinging you around, while still being largely a swordfight with magic- he can aim lightning directly at you just as you can via the shiekah arm and rijus ability, if you are quick enough you can activate it at the same time as he does and catch the charge instead, either refilling your magic meter or deflecting it back at him (like the god ol back and forth)

phase 4 is the final phase after beast (phase 3) his design is a mix of all forms, he is larger than in 1 and 2, furry all over and although much more human again his hair is all smoke like, the armguard fused to his arm like golden scales and the wound in the chest now broken open again with malice eyes staring from within

after phase 3 it seems like the battle is over and zelda steps up to do just as she did at botw end, but before she can finish it a swordslash cuts off half her right hand, as ganondorf isnt done yet and changed from phase 3 to 4; zelda is then disabled for this last fight (no fighting support and repairing weapons), shes been taken to safety by your friends, who finally managed to follow you up here, and you, link, are now the last one standing- his moveset is a mix of it all, quickly changing between swordplay and swipes, magical abilities and grab attacks, it is faster than the previous ones and he dodges much more as well, its meant to really be a challenge

(also heres a sketch of his swords?)

Long plot summary: the shiekah in the service of the ancient queen of hyrule discovered ancient remnants of times long past (aka the old titles, long forgotten) while excavating for luminous stones (as they were developing their tech and needed something to fuel it) that speak of a world threatening evil born as the king of the gerudo, which the queen takes as a warning of the past, and as there currently is a ganondorf as the gerudos king who refuse to unite under her banner but are otherwise on neutral terms she plans to imprison him in a stasis between life and death before he can become that world threatening evil she now believes he is destined to be in order to save everyone and delay it from returning as long as possible (assuming there will be no other male gerudo born while the current one is technically still alive)

(the discovery of said remnants of the past also involves the shiekah persecuting the sonau (zonai), little shy cave dwellers who keep their distance from everyone and have kept these last ruins save but secret bc they thought it could lead to disaster seemingly aware of the ever repeating cycle and believing it to be not divine but a self perpetuated one built on the one sided history of the past, self fullfilling prophecies, which is a threat to hyrule and its golden legacy)

its a plan enacted over years, including secretly manipulating things to make the gerudo farmlands wield bad harvests (NOT in a 'desert was green and lush uwu' way, but they have had their techniques to thrive), forcing them to trade with hyrule and starting to depend on it- the goal being to put ganondorf under so much pressure until he is willing to let go of their sovereignity for the sake of his people or otherwise willing to talk, the meeting with the queen however would be to lure him into a trap and enact the seal

ganondorf here is a new one, he is named so in honor of old myths and legends, he is older (50+) and has two daughters, a proud king and firm in his stance to not bow to anyone yet wanting to avoid conflict for the sake of his people and family; he learns of the scheme before its fully realized, including that the many years of failing crops and dying animals might not be a play of nature after all (through hyrule soldiers talking too much after a having a few too many drinks? something something about their view of the gerudo, since thats always in the games, lets make use of it no?) he sends messengers and messages to the queen, requesting an audience, but she rejects all of it and refuses to talk with him, as the plan isnt fully prepared yet and she has become fearful of him over the years of obsessing over the warnings of the past and the worlds fate, as she sees it, depending on her and the success of it

at some point he has had enough of it and disguises himself and his two most trusted advisors/warriors (potentially his mothers?) as the shiekahs leader and two underlings to finally get to the queen, aiming to confront her about everything- it works and they are let into the castle, overwhelm the guards locking the doors so its only him, his advisors and the royal family with a few taken out guards etc. the queen sees this as a confirmation of his true nature coming through though- he can see there is nothing he could do to convince her he is not what she thinks he is, he attempts to be diplomatic but she is unwavering in her faith

she gives him a choice, to be sealed willingly so he can be remembered as a noble king who gave his life for the world before he became the beast that would threaten to destroy it all, or refuse and risk war and defamation. he refuses of course and a fight ensues, escalating to the point of the throne room itself being send below the earth and the death of everyone within it, with the exception of the young princess of hyrule (who will go on to keep this secret safe and spin the story her way)

it is implied that ganondorf had not told alot of people about hyrules schemes, wanting to deescalate the situation and it ending in a way no one anticipated, but theres remnants of old gerudo villages hidden away as some stayed loyal to him, likely of one of his daughters, as the world turned his legacy into a frightful tale and the gerudo falling under hyrules rule, one chose to resist as the other chose to bow

( .. i hoped to strike a balance between what i like and what zelda stories usually amount to while leaning much more clearly into a hyrule critical lense .. without, hopefully, being too overtly so)

(i thought about making the mid game cutscene into a rough comic or storyboard but im honestly very unsure about it all again q-q)

(i hope this version is better, i will never post these drawing again i swear im done with this part ..)

[bibibbon]

MHA chapter 426

4 more chapters until MHA ends and wow!!!

Honestly this chapter was mainly the conclusion of the todoroki family arc which I still hate how it played out and ended. The whole todoroki family NOT INCLUDING ENJI deserves so much better than what horikoshi gave them.

Hawks is the new HPSC leader?!?! I feel like the system should of just been destroyed considering how much it hurt everyone and hawks by no means has any proper character development to take this role. Hawks hasn't really broken down his flawed beliefs or truly developed from his mentality that ended up getting one of the most redeemable league of villains members aka twice killed. Also he barely reflects on his actions and all of this feels so underwhelming and unprepared for.

Todoroki family deserves better. The ABSLOUTELY vile ending the todoroki family received is horrible like I really feel like they should just runaway and live in a house without endeavour and actually take up on endeavours attornment bs. Like the only one who gets it is natsou who has every right to live with his girlfriend and keep her far away from that environment and oh my Rei deserves so much better both narratively and by the fandom.

Enji still sucks. Yeah I can't lie nothing this man can do can make me like him and it doesn't help that hori has written all of those retcons to humanise him and make him pitiful. I feel like when it came to the todoroki family arc enji took on a whole lot of screentime WHICH HE SHOULDNT OF!!! That should of gone to shoto and the rest of the family and an easy way to fix it is to simply have killed enji in the first war arc (as was initially planned but hori changed it later on) ALSO I SAY LET TOUYA REST AT THIS POINT!!! having him just mechanically alive and stuck is horrible honestly I think that death is much more of a merciful fate for him at this point.

So lady nagant chose to go to jail?!?! Her reasoning for it is actually so sad though and it really shows how much hero society traumatised her. Like the woman didn't want to be free so she can't be used by anyone and would rather spend time in prison over it. I wish that she was hawk's mentor from the begining because the vibe those two give is absolutely amazing and it would enhance the parallels and relationship they have if they were. Honestly I hope hawks actually does a good job but Iam still all for the destruction of hero society and I doubt hawks is actually going to reform it properly also the hero society is so deeply flawed that I don't think there is a proper way to reform more like just scratch everything out and start fresh.

Spinner is back. I hope I don't see him have a breakdown when he realises what happend to the league because I can't handle that. Also that begs the question I thought that spinner had become somewhat brain dead after all he's been through so how did he turn back from being a giant nomu?

I can't handle the sibling angst too bad that touya and shoto didn't have a better arc. The whole shoto trying to know touya better and him revealing that soba is also his favourite food softens my heart. In another universe where enji doesn't get a redemption touya gets one while justice is served to the todoroki family.

Gentle criminal and la brava getting justice. (The only good part of the chapter fr)

in conclusion this chapter was horrible if we look at it from a story perspective due to how badly MHAs already established plot points and themes are handled!!!

Also what happend to the random character in the last chapter!!! I hope we get closure on that soon

[velvetvexations]

Recently I made a survey for two cis allies - both women, one involved in discourse, one very much not, for contrast - to get a look at their perspective. This is nowhere near scientific, but hopefully it works as a small look at how the cis people in our camp view and relate to us.

Thank you and so much love to the participants. <3 You are vitally necessary.

Questions and answers the cut!

Do you know anyone IRL who’s trans? Co-workers, friends, family?

No, live somewhere more small and rural, so the chance of meeting any queer people, much less ones open about it, is slim.

I knew one trans girl in middle school, and I have a cousin who's a trans woman.

Have you ever considered being trans, or had any adjacent unusual feelings about your own gender?

I have, but I've ultimately arrived at "I don't know, I don't care, whatever". Maybe somewhere agender-adjacent, if I'd have to put a word to it? I ultimately don't consider myself trans, though.

No. I very strongly identify as a cis woman.

Are you a fan of any trans content creators?

I don't think so? I don't consider myself a fan of a lot of content creators in general.

Yes, I'm pretty sure.

Do you feel you think often about trans people’s struggles?

Yes.

I try to think about and participate in activism in a lot of different areas that don't directly affect me, so yes, sometimes.

Would you consider yourself knowledgeable about trans issues?

More than the average cis person, at least.

Not really, but I think that's mainly because I never want to feel like I'm overstepping, since I'm a cis woman.

In what ways do you feel the plight of trans people is similar to the suffering of cis women under the patriarchy? How is it different?

Both trans people and cis women (and a lot of cis men, really) suffer from being forced into a box. You have to be this way, and you do not get any say. If you aren't, you're either broken and shouldnt have agency (for your own good), or a threat. People will dish out violence and try to remove your rights to force you into that box, and punish you for stepping outside of it. I think these issues are heavily linked, and while the specifics of what each demographic faces is different (nevermind intersections), i believe the overall problem is the same; what society wants you to be, and how they want you to be it.

I think it's similar in that trans people are discriminated against and we cis women are also discriminated against, like, on a systemic level. The specifics are different, though.

Do you feel that you've ever contributed to transphobia in society?

Yeah. Especially when i was younger, and haven't examined any of it yet. Growing up in a transphobic society inevitably left me with some stuff to work out, and I've done my best to do so, and i will continue to. That's the important part, i think.

Not that I know of, and I would feel really bad if I thought I had accidentally.

Do you believe trans women or trans men have “male privilege”? 

No, that's a really loaded term. Individual trans people may get some advantages in certain settings depending on how they're perceived, but I don't think any of them can really be considered to get any gendered form of privilege, considering their gender is directly what makes them marginalized. Hiding your identity in order to not be mistreated isn't a privilege, it's a result of being oppressed.

I don't think so. This isn't an issue where I feel comfortable speaking as I said. Not that I know of, though.

Do you think things have gotten better or worse for trans people in the last ten years?

Besides the... recent pushback, as a whole, yes.

I think it's a mixture of both, but that's just my outside perspective.

Are you optimistic about where the struggle for trans rights is headed?

I refuse to be anything but. No matter what happens, there will always be trans people, and there will always be allies, and we'll continue fighting. There's simply no other option.

Once again, it's hard to tell as an outsider. Things seem mixed.

How would you react to a trans person being transphobic in your presence? Forex: misgendering someone they dislike.

Just correct them/express my disapproval as i would if they were cis, really? Transphobia is transphobia.

I would feel uncomfortable. Since I'm cis, I don't know if I would feel comfortable saying something, though.

Do you have any message you’d like to give as an ally?

Don't let anyone convince you you're alone in this, and that cis people are all against you. We're here, we love you, and we'll continue to fight for you. Please, don't give up. The world is a better place for having you in it.

Yeah, just that if there's anything I can ever do to support people I would love to!

[i-yap]

I found ur blog like a week ago and I went through all ur Dick Grayson fics and I'm lowkey obsessed help

May I ask for childhood best friends to lovers w Grayson? Maybe he and R were besties at the circus but after the incident and he gets taken in by Bruce, they get taken into the Court of Owls and works as their best informant/spy when they meet Dick again as Nightwing? Or just normal childhood friends to lovers lol

Im not too familiar with the court of owls..so im just doing a govt spy y/n if thats okay. And also i need more people like you giving love to babyboy grayson tbh

Dick Grayson x spy!reader - Childhood besties ->lovers

The girl who could fit through, mold through any surface, any ring or hole and the boy who could jump, twist and turn like no other. The boy of the spotlight and the girl of the shawdows..the only kids in a big circus they called family. But what good is a family when he's gone. Some billionaire, from gotham they said. Was it the billionaire who held him when he cried that night. No , she was.

That night, the girl had no parents so his parents were hers too. But she is calmer, always has been. Calm, bidding her time before she makes enough to escape. A house is not a home without her wonder boy.

Wonder boy? in the choas of it all, in the pain, for the sake of revenge he left her. But he himself doesnt see - he really had no choice. " New family" the press called it. A family is not born out of pain, its not born from bloodthirst. She was his family, but when he came to get her she was long gone.

Now here he stands, looking at her. He should have known she'd turn into a govt spy, she had a talent of getting in where she shouldnt. The way she got into his heart and never left.

The vigilante and the soldier, the hero and the spy, the fighter and the runner.

Would she believe him if he said he thought about her everyday? would she love what he has become? Would she forgive him for all he has done?

What all he had done. the women he has been with, they never meant anything. He thought she was dead! if he had known. They promised under the circus lights...but here he was. He wonders if she broke the promise too.

She didnt care, of course not. This was her sweetheart, her lover. He had the same smile, the same love for the spotlight, the same passion and the same kind eyes. Maybe she is breaking the oath of being a government official, but promises are made to be broken and for him, there's not much she wouldnt break.

The same applies to him, after all these years, reunited again. Maybe they never left at all. It's written in the curtains of the big red-yellow tent.

Changing the system from inside and out, y/n really has always been what's missing from Dick grayson. How can boy wonder be without his girl mystery after all.

[cogmin213]

Who is Raven?

Reincarnation of Deon Hart from im not that kind of talent

He is 174 years old and Cruel Hart's forever baby

What is Raven's true name?

"Deon" but his name is censored by the world so whenever you mention Deon. They will only hear static noises or "■■" in Cruel's system chat box

Raven is only an alias since his true name is censored

Why does Raven have black hair and Green or grey eyes?

Raven's original hair color is white and his og eye color is red, however due to an accident. He become blind and his red eyes turn into murkish grey

The reincarnation Deon was kidnapped due to his ability of " spirit fragment" and been taken care by his fake parents.

The Head of Spirit Fragment association during that time use Deon's fake parents to keep an eye of him until Deon decide to escape in his snowfox form but during his escape his eyes turn blind and met the head of association

He awaken his shaman ability and met the guardian spirit. The guardian spirit save Deon but Deon's soul fragment is broken and missing some pieces

Cruel decide to give a partial of his soul to Deon thus making his hair turn black. That black hair is a connection of Cruel and Deon and if the connection is broken means Cruel disappeared as Deon's guardian spirit and his hair will turn back white

The green eyes was lend by Cruel and it can be turn off and on like a switch by Deon. Cruel can see anything Deon can see since that eyes belongs to him

What is Raven's backstory?

Deon is born with the purest soul. Pure as a snowfox.

He snowfox is a proof he could become a spirit fragment user and thus making several people wanting him.

Guardian Spirit has been watching Deon since the moment he was born.

The Head of Spirit Fragment Association kidnapped several children including Deon and put them under several fake parents.

He taken a form of snowfox to escape but large accidents happen during his run making him blind

He goes back to take revenge to kill the head of association as he accidentally open the 'gate' in rage and awaken both immortality and shaman ability.

Due to his shaman ability, he was able to communicate to the Guardian Spirit

Note- Gate is the vortex directed to the demon world meaning it could bring out monster or an entrance to a territory like the vampire queen. In this case, Deon open the gate and manage to bring out demonic monster to eat the head of association.

Does Raven know about his previous life?

In chapter 98, he will acquire the book Remember written for Deon.

The book is only for that one reader

The cover was smudgy and you could only read the title as "talent" written by Remember

In Chapter 99, He ask permission from Cruel if its okay for him to read the book since it's related to him. Cruel only answered he shouldnt let him waver his action due to Cruel's opinion but Raven insist Cruel is more important than the book

Chapter 100, as Raven reads the book with Cruel. Raven naturally remember his past life and Cruel was crying when he reads the book

In conclusion, Despite his shitty life for 24 years of life as Deon Hart. Its nothing compared to the way he live for 150 years as ■■. All the hatred he felt in intkot doesnt mean anything to him. He just felt pitiful to his previous life but he never deny he was a sinner

He became closer to his Guardian Spirit after that

Why is Raven curse?

Karma from his previous life

The curse is about when an ordinary person taken their eyes off Raven. They would forget about him from their memory

Raven's disciple tried their best to remember their master by creating diary and adding matching tattoos together

...Hwan took the tattoo way too seriously though

Who is Raven's disciples?

Raven have 5 disciples but maybe 6 now

Altair , Live, Rowena , Hwan, Deceiver and reincarnated!Dan

Altair : First Disciple and the Head of Awakening Association.

• 31 years old with Navy blue hair and sky blue eyes. He have a mole below his left eyebrow. 188cm

• Raven's little star

• Tsundere who wants to kill his master becayse he knew his master is immortal

• Rarely calls Raven father and when he does. Its meaningful

• The person who is hurt the most by Raven's disappearance.

• The most rational person between the disciples

• big oldest sibling energy

• loves to tease his younger siblings

• Dwarf Chief favorite

• doesnt like sweets

• Most likely to carry out the crime plan by his siblings successfully

Live : Second Disciple and Head of Spirit Fragment Association

• 30 years old with green hair and yellow eyes. 169cm

• Professional gaslighter and two-faced

• The sibling who start an idea to commit crime together

• Calls Altair "hyungnim"

• Elf King favorite

• Spirit Fragment is a Jaguar

• Semi Immortal due to Hwan delaying her death (she is supposed to be dead)

• loves to tie Raven's long hair

Rowena : Third Disciple and Head of Fighter Association

• 27 years old , 174cm , black hair and orange eyes with fair skin

• massive Chaotic energy and wont stfu

• always the main reason why Altair declare an emergency meeting between siblings

• Cruel's most favorite but also his least favorite

• she could crush a skull with her barehands

• Have an artificial vampire blood due to being experiment as a child but was saved by Raven

• Vampire Queen's favorite

• wants to marry Raven ( Cruel reacts so strongly he wants to yeet her) because she wants to spend most of her life with Raven but not because of sexual attraction

Hwan : Fourth Disciple and Head of Shaman Association

• 28 years old, 180cm , Red hair with gray eyes and southerner dark skin (similar with the shaman in intkot!Ran skin)

• Looks like a good boy but could kill you

• Will curse at your face as long as Raven isnt around

• Doesnt know martial art and the weakest in physical strength

• Can see your future and call you ugly af even in the future

• Mermaid Queens favorite

• put a tattoo brand on Raven's tongue

Deceiver : Fifth Disciple and Demigod

• 196cm , pretending to be 26 years old to be called the youngest by his siblings lmao. He have white hair like Deon and red eye pupil with black sclera (however his eyes in disguise is grey pupil with white sclera to appear like a human)

• Demon King Caver and intkot!Deon Hardt biological child

• World Error

• He is above the emperor and everyone except his noonim, hyungnims and father. He hates Dan and never acknowledge the newest disciple though

• he loves his father so much he start a war against the holy land to find his father. He is also willing to create a world for his Father

• He is very knowledgeable about both of his fathers life

• His true body is the tree in Esperanes Kingdom

• the 4 disciple keeps kidnapping Raven from Deceiver and also trying to keep him away from Raven since he is the main reason why their father disappeared for 10 years

• Raven only tolerate this child after he founds out he is the world error but his responsibility to kill him to save the world from getting swallowed by the gate

Dan : Fifth Disciple who is supposed to replace Deceiver and the successor of Spirit Fragment Association

• same appearance as intkot tbh (he is the reincarnation of intkot!dan)

• all the disciples hates his ass and probably jealous because during Raven 10 years of disappearance. Raven just adopted a new disciple

• Live is using him to gain favor from her papa and Live is keeping an eye on him since he wants to kill her father

• Raven loves him

• Member of Lofty Mercenary

• Spirit Fragment is a crow. His spirit fragment often accompany Raven but always getting yeeted by the other disciples to spend time with their papa (Altair threw Dan out of the window before lmfao)

• only became a disciple recently

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• All Disciples except Dan called Raven "Father"

• All Disciple except Dan have childhood memories together creating diary and matching tattoos before Raven disappeared for 10 years

• Raven called all his disciples with cute nicknames even if they're an adult such as " my son, my dear, my baby, my little star, etc..."

• All Disciples except Dan raised with warmth and love since they were children until the day Raven decide to disappear for 10 years

• All Disciples except Dan have abandonment issues because of Raven

• All Disciples except Dan always gives Cruel a headache and you can always see Cruel taking out his sword from his sheeth slowly ( its like Cruel always feels his blood pressure rising whenever they done something stupid involving his baby Deon 😂 )

• All Disciples except Dan planned to lock Raven inside the room with no escape which made Cruel want to smack them even more (but Dan visits Raven in his imprisonment room for time to time so basically he wasnt against the idea of locking Raven up LMAO)

• All disciples loves cuddling and getting kisses to their face from Raven (though Altair doesnt like being treated as a child but he loves his father)

• Raven priorities taking care of their trauma and very supportive parent

What is Raven and Cruel's relationship?

• Hyung and Dongsaeng. Raven tease Cruel by calling him ancestor since Cruel is born during mythological era (intkot timeline)

• They're soulmate literally

• They cant live without the other

• They are more open to their feelings and communication

• Cruel is always against on Raven's marriage whenever he receive a marriage proposal

• touch starves (kisses, hugs, caressing cheeks , etc...)

• Flower is their love language. Cruel always give Deon flowers

• even before and after having previous life memory. They never stop being together

• respectful and ask for the other opinion before they do something they felt they might cross the line

• HAPPY CRUEL AND HAPPY DEON FRFR

• THERE'S SO MANY THINGS ABOUT THEM 😭😭😭 EVERY CHAPTER IS JUST ABOUT THEM AND THEY'RE VERY CLOSE I CANT EVEN PUT THEM INTO WORDS. IM SO SOFT ABOUT THEM. I LOVE THEM BEING TOGETHER UWEEEEH. THEY LITERALLY CAN NOT BE SEPARATED NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO TO THEM BUT IF YOU DID. RAVEN WILL GET ANXIETY AND GO INSANE WHILE CRUEL WILL DO HIS BEST TO GO BACK TO RAVEN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. I LOVE THEEEEEM

[audhdnight]

Hey hi hello I am extremely pissed off

Maybe this point has been beaten into the ground already but THE HUMAN SHEILD ARGUMENT IS COMPLETE AND UTTER BULLSHIT

While my family members were just telling me that Israel didn’t actually bomb that first hospital everyone was up in arms about, Israel bombed THREE MORE HOSPITALS. And immediately after began a campaign to completely decimate the entire health system. THEY DONT HAVE ANY FUNCTIONAL HOSPITALS LEFT

But when I proved to aforementioned dumbass idf bootlicker relatives that YES ACTUALLY THEY DID BOMB THAT HOSPITAL AND NOW ALL THESE OTHERS I get the “wElL hAmAs sHoUlDnT hIdE iN hOsPiTaLs tHeN”

Listen to me. Carefully. Come closer.

I DONT GIVE A SHIT

EVERY SINGLE MEMBER OF EVERY SINGLE TERRORIST ORGANIZATION IN THE FUCKING WORLD COULD HAVE BEEN IN THAT HOSPITAL AND YOU STILL DONT GET TO BOMB A FUCKING HOSPITAL

This applies to the churches and refugee camps and schools and relief centers too. These are places of REFUGE. They are supposed to be SAFE when homes and open streets are not. THATS WHY THIS IS CALLED A FUCKING WAR CRIME.

Do you understand that the people of Gaza (Palestine in general actually but I’m specifically speaking about Gaza right now) have been stripped of all dignity???

They can’t bury their dead, or if they manage to, it’s in mass graves marked with fucking cinder blocks. Bodies can be seen sticking out from under rubble, covered in flies. Because of the ceasefire, doctors have returned to a hospital they were forced to evacuate, leaving patients behind, and found the bodies of the children they were not allowed to take along, rotting in their beds. Imagine the absolute abject misery of being a doctor in Gaza right now. You can’t save everyone, you can’t even save almost everyone. You are forced at gunpoint to make the decision to leave your patients behind so that at least you can continue to help those who leave with you, hoping to return soon enough to save those who remain. Imagine the heartbreak of coming back days later and finding these poor broken bodies. Children with limbs missing or splinted who could not get up out of bed to even try escaping. They died slowly, and painfully.

Gazans are watching as their oppressors burn their olive trees, their cultural heritage, their livelihood, their source of food. Those trees mean so much to them, and have been cared for by generations of the same families in many cases. It’s not just a plant, not just a crop. Those trees are their inheritance, bearing the sweat and blood of their foremothers and forefathers. And Israel burns them.

Gazans are now being punished for COLLECTING RAIN WATER. Because even though Israel bombed the water reservoirs and poured cement in their pipes, apparently the fucking rain still belongs to Israel. Large numbers of deaths come from those who died of dehydration, or those who got sick from drinking dirty water. Illness is everywhere, because not only is the water dirty, but what food they can scavenge has been expired or left open from explosions or picked out of ashes.

These people cannot even eat and drink with human dignity. They don’t have blankets to sleep with despite the fact it is winter and nights are freezing. People sleep in the streets wherever they can find a less rubble covered place. Bisan mentioned in one of her videos from two weeks ago that many people lose clothing every time another bomb drops, and so people are walking around half dressed or in literal shredded rags. Do you wonder why everyone in the videos you see is covered in ash and dirt? It’s because they don’t have water for showers. A bomb falls, sending dust and rubble raining down over every surface, and the survivors just have to walk around like that, wearing the blood of their family members or friends or pets who didn’t make it out.

This is the literal definition of “cruel and unusual punishment”. They have no dignity in life, and certainly none in death. This is inhumane and absolutely disgusting, and I am ashamed to live in a world alongside people who loudly and proudly support it.

I don’t care if you hate me, I don’t care if you think my identity means I shouldn’t have rights. No matter how much I dislike or abhor someone, I still know they deserve their dignity. All humans should have that most bare minimum of basic rights.

[blusical]

"win and in shouldnt be a thing" "another example of nascars broken system-" my guy (gender neutral), a driver got his first career cup win, 100th win for his team and did it during his LAST YEAR with that team. let us be happy. (but also, i too hope nascar fixes this wacky playoff system).

[manicsystemic]

Trans men who say they experience transmisogyny, define how you have experienced transmisogyny aside from being called a slur or mistaken for a trans woman challenge: difficulty impossible.

Literally every example I have seen these trans men depict is just being misgendered. Which is just regular transphobia. Why are you so eager to say you experience misogyny. Why do these same trans men often say they can be lesbians. Why are ya'll so eager to misgender yourselves. Why have you let terf bioessentialism into your mind.

If you ask an actual trans woman what kinds of transmisogyny we experience, its more than just slurs and misgendering. It's the fact that even when people agree that we are women, they gatekeep us out of women'a spaces despite the fact that trans women experience proportionally more violence and need access to things like shelters, support groups, and community outreach.

It's how pervasively society depicts amab people who present femininely (transfem coded characters such as buffalo bill, lois enhorn, and more) as a joke, to be ridiculed and demeaned, but also dangerous and often insane and violent, depicting a boogeyman of older trans women as acceptable targets for violence which mirrors how trans women experience violence often from those close to us.

but also as desireable but denying their femininity (see every transfem coded anime character in the 'otoko no ko' trope) so as to incur a "i am a failed broken woman" vulnerability that leaves them open to abuse "i want to be a woman but im not allowed to be by myself or others so you can hurt me and its okay im not a real woman anyway" that frankly exposes how many trans women are abused when we are younger.

Transmisogyny is not "when someone calls trans eomen slurs" transmisogyny is a systemic, pervasive cultural force that shoves us into an underclass of women that are acceptable to punish, hurt, take sexual pleasure from forcibly, and that do not receive solidarity from cis women (as a societal class) because it we are an acceptable underclass of women for even them to feel superior to, for them to call men to do violence to us, for them to ridicule as unable to take part in aspects of 'tranditional' womanhood and thus as unable to even fulfill society's deemed roles for women.

It's how even when we try and talk about our issues in trans spaces trans men talk over us just like cis men talk over cis women, and cis people are all too eager to lift up those transmisogynist voices over us.

Also, my brain is very verbose today because I'm doing a lot of thinking at work, but make no mistake I am absolutely pissed and incredibly livid at every post I see of ya'lls talking about hoe kuch transmisogyny you experience when you have no goddamn clue how much it soaks every second of a trans woman's life in how we shouldnt feel safe anywhere, how we're below everyone, transmisogyny is not misgendering, despite what terfs tell you you dont experience sex-based oppression and they don't see us as men, as many trans women point out terfs are all too happy to ally with cis men to enact violence on trans women, they see us as an undesirable class of women, and that is why you will never experience transmisogyny. At worst they will see you as a cis woman, we are acceptable for cis women to punch down on. It is not erasure of trans mens struggles to tell them to shut the fuck up about saying they experience the same systemic cultural downward force we do.