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[radicalgator]

A lil change up now, from usual critters and creatures of the world of aeon to a lil beyond to the god of everything. 

[merlinbingo]

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“Promise me you won't look back.” by HadrianPeverellBlack Ship: No ships/gen Main Characters: Merlin, Arthur, Gwen, Gaius, Percival, Leon Rating: Teen Warnings: Choose not to use archive warnings, Major character death Major tags: horn of cathbhadh, Angst, Hurt No Comfort, Immortal Merlin (Merlin), Suicidal Merlin (Merlin) Summary: “Promise me you won't look back.” Arthur said, speaking through the fog. Merlin swallowed. “You can't ask me that.” “Merlin, promise me.” Merlin didn't answer, unable to utter those simple words."

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[deadnymaster]

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG: HOPELESS FUTURE (page 16 to 21)

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[lycheesodas]

where’s that post that’s like: girls with swords. you agree. reblog.

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this is my oc, very early in the works :3c she’s a supernatural hunter and college student. the triangle thingies are like force fields, which is her special ability

[sanguinesophistication]

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“Far be it for me to intrude, but I highly doubt that this course of action will achieve the result you were hoping for. My brother has somewhat unfortunate predilection for turning those who attempt cross him into a series of body parts.” Elijah explained, “I would hate for that to happen.”

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[ahllohehn]

I tried drawing an OC based off my friend’s random moodboard OC and moodboard belongs to @__drewpyy !

[crunchetime]

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[horizon-verizon]

Rhaenyra Winning King’s Landing (Excluding Some Events in B/T)

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[annalysa]

A long but soooo interesting post ! Oh, thr parallels between Hancock and Doflamingo are so interesting !

Donquixote Doflamingo’s reasons and motivation

His motivation is unexpectedly noble for a guy who has suffered brutal violence and was raised by the ruthless killers. We can look into his head for the first time when he has an emotional outburst over the situation in Marineford. When Doffy’s emotions started to outpour, he verbally attacked the World Government.

海賊が悪!!? 海軍が正義!!? そんなものはいくらでも塗り替えられてきた…!!! // Pirates are evil?! The Marines are justice?! Such things have been changed as many times as you want!!!

“平和"を知ねェ子供共と"戦争"を知ねェ子供共との価値観が違う!!! 頂点に立つ者が善悪を塗り替える!!! 今この場所こそ中立だ!!! 正義は勝つって!?  そりゃそうだろ! 勝者だけが正義だ!!!! // Brats who don’t know peace and brats who don’t know war have different values!!! Those at the top decide what is good and what is evil!!! This place is neutral ground right now!!! Justice will prevail, you say?! Of course it will! Whoever prevails is just!!!!

A huge inscription "The Marines” that is shown when Doflamingo is talking about the nature of justice kinda implies.

Justice is the favorite word of the Marines, the World Government army. He directly accuses the Marines of being not very just and defending the world order that brings people suffering. In the pictures from his head, the different values he mentioned are illustrated by the attitude to food. The child soldiers are happy about the canned food they have found (if there were meat on the skeleton, they would probably have gnawed it too), and the rich girl does not want to eat vegetables. Why this particular example is given becomes clear later.

These are the elite officers of the Donquixote Family as children. As can be seen, they all were destitute. The rest of the Donquixote Family members as children are also depicted in a similar way. Doflamingo felt like saying pirates are not always evil and the Marines aren’t always this shining beacon of justice, because sometimes piracy is a lesser evil than…

妻が焼き殺された…!! どうでもいいんどろお前らにゃ // My wife was burned to death!! It’s nothing to you, right?!

お前らに納める[ 天 上 金 ]のせいで…!! 国が飢餓で滅んだんだ……!!! お前ら腹へったことあるか!? みんな骨と皮になって死んだよ!!! // Because of the Celestial Tribute we have to pay, the country has been ravaged by famine!!! Have you ever had nothing to eat?! Everyone died leaving only a bag of bones!!!

...than death from starvation.

At the time of the Marineford Arc, it was not yet fully revealed how terrible the rule of the WG is, but, to put it bluntly, it turned the world into a giant Nazi camp.

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[killasims]

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[merlinbingo]

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Forgiving Yourself Is the Hardest Thing by VikingSong Ship: No ships/gen, Arthur/Gwen Main Characters: Arthur, Gwen, Knights of the Round Table Rating: Teen Warnings: Major character death Major tags: Merlin dies, Gwen POV, Grief, Guilt, No magic reveal Summary: Gwen is intimately familiar with grief; she was prepared—as much as anyone can ever really be—to tread the long, winding road to the place where the sudden rush of loss hits less often, when it will no longer knock the wind out of her at every trifling reminder of Merlin. What she was not prepared for is the invisibility of her grief. She is the Queen now; no one seems to remember that he was her friend, too, back in the days when she was just Gwen and he was just Merlin. Or: Gwen struggles through her grief after Merlin’s sudden death and wrestles with guilt as she reflects on the slow demise of their friendship."

[gravitascivics]

JUDGING LIBERATED FEDERALISM, XV

This blog, which is in the midst of presenting a political model for the purposes of guiding civics curricular efforts, is set to offer the model’s second component. The first is the community and the second is participating entities.  The model is entitled liberated federalism.  This posting describes and explains this second component.

         Entities can be persons, groups, associations (both within and without government), local governments, state governments, regional organizations of states, the national government, or arrangements, including the United States and other nations.  One can ascribe to these entities ideal attributes.

         First, entities have constitutional integrity, i.e., they have moral worth which endows them with dignity and integrity as autonomous actors in the political arena.  They can make decisions, act upon those decisions, and be held accountable for the consequences of those activities.  They, therefore, have rights.  Entities, in terms of this model, are participants in some enterprise in which an arrangement with other entities has been formulated.

         Arrangements are formulated for some purpose or purposes. The entity is in relation with other entities within the arrangement under the auspices of some agreement. The agreement can take the form of a verbal statement, a contract, or a compact or covenant.  Each entity has certain attributes within the context of the arrangement.

         These attributes are:

 ·       Status refers to the degree to which the entity can be considered an elite. Leaders of the arrangement have high status; followers have lower status, non-active participants, usually, have even lower status.  

·       Conscience refers to the individual’s or collective’s ideal domain which contains the notions of desirable states in terms right and wrong behavior.  Of most relevance are the desirable feelings of right and wrong associated with the reasons for the arrangement.

·       Skills include listening, communicating, physical dexterity and athleticism, researching, and political (such as lobbying) skills, and other personality traits relevant to the role of the entity.  Personality can include humor, friendliness, tolerance, accepting disposition, assertiveness, and decisiveness.

·       Roles include leadership roles, followship roles, and other strategic positions.  This can lead to inquiry as to the appropriate types of roles that a particular arrangement should have and what kinds of entities should fill them. Primary in determining which roles and the kinds of entities that should fill them would reflect the purpose of the arrangement.

 Deserving special note is the attribute of character – a more encompassing attribute – that is, it deals with conscience.  It is considered not from its content but from its depth.  One asks in terms of character:  is the conscience of the entity one that is the product of a reflected process?  How well and thorough was that reflection?  And does the entity have the courage of conviction to act according to those reflected ideals? These are the concerns of character.

         Again, associated with conscience but to a more specific level, is what the interests of the entity are. This practical attribute is the list of relevant values, both of material and non-material types, held by the entity.  This attribute is also concerned with whether the interests are short or long term.  A moral perspective is more concerned with long term interests.[1]

         Within an arrangement there can be any number of entities.  Theory can be developed, and study can be conducted to determine the optimal number of entities, given the purposes of an arrangement (beyond the scope of this account). But whatever the number, there needs for a relationship to exist among the entities.  Federalist unions require that the entities, despite their varying statuses, enjoy equality among them.

         Donald Lutz points out that a basic characteristic of American federalism was a belief in the equality among parties that joined compact-al or covenantal associations and based on each member’s abilities to give consent. This notion can be expanded so that, as part of an extended republic, all states were given equal standing when joining a federal union of the United States.  Not all states enjoyed the same status, but all were equal under the auspices of the association.[2]  In like manner, the entities depicted in the model enjoy the same equality.

         The relationship among the entities also has communal links tying them together.  The links can include the elements of the agreement, emotional ties, shared resources, shared interests, and mutual respect.  All or any of these links would make the entities closer and more committed to accomplishing the purposes of the arrangement.

         Again, this relation has to do with what Selznick calls reciprocal advantage.[3]  This concern includes an understanding that a communal sense among the members of an arrangement increases the chances of success; it is sensitive to the whimsical nature of fortune and fate, and it avoids the disruption that a lack of dignity and integrity can cause any collective (communal) effort.

         The last aspect of the model associated with the entities is the relationship between them and the arrangement.  The entity has the obligation and duty to extend to the arrangement loyalty, trust, skills, and knowledge.  Of course, the nature of the arrangement will dictate the exact nature of these obligations and duties.  But loyalty, trust, skills, and knowledge have the very practical consequence of making success and long-term satisfaction of interests appreciably more likely.

         Any arrangement in which its member entities do not meet these obligations and duties to a minimal degree would find it very difficult to meet the purposes of its existence.[4]  This point is important in that it, in terms of day-to-day life, focuses on a basic difference between liberated federalism and the natural rights view.  The former, liberated federalism highlights these obligations and duties and the latter, natural rights, mostly dismisses them as merely the product of individual choices among the populace.

         Picking up on this attribute, in return, the arrangement has certain responsibilities to the individual entities; first, to guarantee the equal standing that an individual entity is entitled to.  This responsibility should be addressed by the arrangement’s policies, by-laws, and other governing attributes, and by the treatment of the entities in the arrangement pursuing its goals.

         Second, in cases when an entity is lacking relevant resources and skills, the arrangement, in relation to its resources and purposes, should make special allowances and possibly distribute some helpful subsidies in order to “level the playing field” among the entities. Public schooling can be seen in this light.  Selznick writes of derivative rights that one can and should associate with equal treatment.[5]

         And that ends this account’s coverage of the first two components of the liberated federalism model, the community and participating entities.  That leaves the last component, the studied association.  The next posting will begin addressing that component as it serves as the center of this model’s concern.  For the purposes of civics education, the studied association is the US government, a state government, or governmental arrangement at the local level (e.g., city government).

[1] Philip Selznick, The Moral Commonwealth:  Social Theory and the Promise of Community (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992).

[2] Donald S. Lutz, “The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, 1639,” in Roots of the Republic: American Founding Documents Interpreted, edited by Stephen L. Schechter (Madison, WI:  Madison House, 1990.

[3] Selznick, The Moral Commonwealth.

[4] Ibid.

[5] Ibid.

[hyba]

Might I also interest you in a picrew of Vadra? Shall we finally get some visuals, hmm?

His hair should be a little curlier and darker, and I imagine his skin leaning more towards 94552E, but I really liked this picrew so voila:

Vadra is like eternally TiredTM and Done With This. I think the picrew suits him pretty well. Just imagine him in his usual armour / Commander's uniform.

INTRODUCING: VADRA VUUR THE PIRATES OF SISSA

Perhaps, he thought - perhaps, this is the greatness I was destined for. Not to be a soldier, but a peacemaker.

Commander Vadra* Vuur** spent his formative years under the care of the Empire. Loyal to his Emperor and his people, Vadra has dedicated his life to fighting the pirates and protecting the Empire’s borders from their constant attacks. His capture of one of the pirate leaders has unexpected repercussions, and he finds himself a pawn, playing a role in the Emperor’s grand scheme.

Character Traits: stubborn, dedicated, committed, eternally exhausted, diplomatic, honest, responsible, serious, unforgiving, confident, brave, and a lot more. (Do you see some overlap with Sahra?)

*A Note on the Name: I have to be honest, I completely made the name Vadra up without looking too much into it. I liked the way it sounded, but had no clue what it meant in any language. Now that I’ve actually researched it:

Vadra is a name used in India, Indonesia, and Nigeria primarily. While doing some research on its origins, I learned a great deal more about the word in Sanskrit than in any other language. Anywho, despite the fact that I am in no way an expert in any of the languages of the places listed above, I have done my best to research this name as thoroughly as possible. Here’s what I learned:

In Sanskrit, the word vadra (वड्) is an adjective that means large or great. I was able to find other sources that claimed the same definitions and checked with someone who is familiar with Hindi and who knew the term, so I feel fairly certain about this one (hope you don’t mind, but big shout-out to @andiwriteunderthemoon​ for your invaluable help).

My research revealed that in Indonesia, there are a lot of Sanskrit-based names, which explains its use there.

Though sources are limited, there was one source that claimed the name seems to have originated from the Swedish väder, which refers to weather. I can’t seem to corroborate their claim elsewhere, however. Upon closer inspection, the Swedish word itself originated from the word veðr from Old Norse (which also happens to mean ram).

I couldn’t find anything for the use of the name in Nigeria, though it is possible that its use there could be limited to the Indian population living in the country.

**A Note on the Second Name: I also completely made up his second name, Vuur, only to be pleasantly surprised when I Googled it and found that vuur in Dutch and Afrikaans means “fire”.

So, put them together, and you get something along the lines of “Great Fire”, which sounds pretty darn cool.