#communist robin

[turt1eb0i]

This was funnier in my head

[racingwest]

i think it's pretty clear who's who

[thereadingmoon]

he’s asking if you’re a communist, Robin.

[claybooots]

so true, so true.

[goodhairbadmanners]

We need to bring back neighborhood bartering as a viable option for exchanging goods and services. From here on out we need to actively engage in our communities by connecting and contributing whether it be skills or resources. The government has never cared about you and will not notice when you're gone. But the people around you will. They need you and you need them. We are built for cohabitation and mutual support. Humans are social animals. Time to get back to that. There are probably already structures in place where you live that you can help bolster. And if there aren't it could be worthwhile challenge to tackle this year. Be brave, be kind, and protect eachother.

[tobias-the-artist-again]

[tgirldarkholme]

Nico and Andy Warhol posing as Batman and Robin, Esquire Magazine, August 1966

proclaiming the 60s as over in summer 1966... you are not ready for the following 3-4 years uh

[leonardcohenofficial]

anyways everyone read hammer and hoe: alabama communists during the great depression by robin d.g. kelley

[protoslacker]

Black Communists taught me that we need not choose between anti-racism and class solidarity; they are not mutually exclusive but rather mutually constitutive. The same holds true for the fights against all forms of oppression: sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism. The Black Communists of Alabama also taught me that local struggles exist in a global context. The forces arrayed against us are no respecters of nations, and the same ought to hold true of our movements.

Robin D. G. Kelley in Hammer & Hope. Why We Are Called Hammer & Hope

Ideas, and the radical movements that produce them, really do matter.

Hammer & Hope: A Magazine of Black Politics and Culture

[unhonestlymirror]

Interesting phenomenon: an actor named Borys Khmelnytskyi, born in Ussuriysk, near China (the favourite place of communists to exile Ukrainians to), lived in Kyiv, studied in Lviv, played in Taras Bulba, photographed in vyshyvanka... is named "russian actor" in all possible internet sources! Moreover, his biography is surprisingly short and clean for someone who played Robin Hood and was, in general, very popular.

On the picture above: a scene from "Ivanhoe," Borys Khmelnytskyi as Robin Hood on the left, and Romualds Ancāns (Latvian) as Richard the Lionheart on the right.

[saintsenara]

I’m sending you some next gen ships!

Scorbus (Scorpius Malfoy/Albus Severus Potter), Rosphia (Sophia Barclay/Rose Granger-Weasley), Yolly (Polly Chapman/Yann Fredericks), Crames (Craig Bowker Jr./James Sirius Potter), Nienice (Janice Pepper/Nienna Robins), Trinique (Trinity Lynn/Dominique Weasley), Lorgo (Hugo Granger-Weasley/Lorcan Scamander) and Roxody (Melody Fawley/Roxanne Weasley).

These are all canon characters btw. No OC’s in this one.

thank you very much for the ask, anon!

scorpius malfoy/albus severus potter

which also got a shoutout of its own from another mystery anon:

yes, this slaps.

but - crucially - not because it brings up any latent longings and regrets on harry and draco's part.

[i remain committed to finding drarry only mildly interesting at best, and that's because the girlies are - as is their right - completely delulu about its plausibility...]

but because the concept of harry and draco being forced to interact awkwardly with each other for the rest of their lives is funny.

as is the idea of harry going home from dropping albus off at king's cross thinking that he absolutely smashed the parenting moment of dealing with his insecurity about being in slytherin by telling him to just ask the hat to put him in gryffindor... only to discover ten hours later that albus had immediately forgotten it the minute he heard scorpius had a racing broom.

[scorpius and either rose or hugo, though... immaculate generational repercussions. ron and draco are sneaking out of the engagement party for hate sex, one hundred percent.]

hugo granger-weasley/lorcan scamander

if you ever meet a tory voter under the age of forty, nine times out of ten they are the child of the sort of crunchy, lib-dem-voting, soft leftist who likes morris dancing and lentils. similarly, the most ardent young communists you meet will usually turn out to have been educated at £60,000p/a boarding schools, know at least one minor royal, and have parents who like grouse shooting and have strong opinions about argentina.

lorcan scamander, on the basis of this principle, is the most middle-of-the-road man imaginable. he loves cardigans and putting money in his savings account and feeling faintly embarrassed whenever he has to explain that his parents live in a commune.

he's the perfect son-in-law. ron and hermione love him.

all the rest of these

[findafight]

that post you reblogged a while ago (about steve just getting super artsy, heavy on metaphors movies w zero effort but still not liking them) is canon to me now but i just died thinking about how that knowledge would destroy jonathan's entire sense of self. it would ruin him and that would be so funny for me personally.

lol Robin mentions Steve having banned Godard films from movie night and jon makes some comment like "what? too much for him?"

"nah. he just hates them. says everyone's an asshole and even if that's the point he'd like to have at least someone to like if he's watching two hours of existentialism, internal critique of the American film industry and audience complacency, and fourth wall breaking communist theory. So, no Godard but Varda is allowed if you really want a French New Wave film. She does women better anyways."

and jon just blue screens because what? how does Steve know that? And he has to grapple with the fact Steve has watched more than one Godard film to ban them, and understands enough of what it's saying to be annoyed by how it's presented. He needs to sit down.

Steve doesn't even remember the guys name he just calls him "that annoy pretentious french director" which. Thanks for narrowing it down Steve! (Robin knows who he means though)

[mushiemellows]

The Sunday Affair

Chapter 12: Epilogue- Paradise and a New World (on ao3)

(Cold War Spies AU)

Rating: E

Words: 118,001

NOW FULLY COMPLETE!

Summary: 1967, Washington DC. Special Agent Flam has been assigned to find the assassin responsible for blowing his arms deal. The Communist spy only known as Sunday now has him in their sights. But Franky's been super busy lately, starting with his new wife. Their sudden elopement brings with it the hope of a peaceful future, and the promise of pain. Robin may be hiding a few secrets, but she's not the only spy in the shadows.

Now, two years later...

[livwritesstuff]

You are such a creative person. I have almost finished all of "plant a seed" and the way you've written the characters and their thoughts and manurism is just *chef's kiss* dreamy.

Also, your droplets from the Steddie dad life brightens my day.

THANK YOU!!! Holy moly you are too sweet.

This series and this community have definitely been a bright spot in my life and I'm always so happy to hear that it's doing the same for other folks too <3

Have a double post today for being such a lovely soul

(in the form of a deleted flashback from plant a seed)

In retrospect, signing Robbie up for karate classes might have been a mistake.

Perhaps the bigger mistake, though, was signing the five-year-old up for karate classes a month before Robin and Nancy came over for their annual ironic watch of WWE’s Wrestlemania, or so Steve ponders as he watches Robbie swing her fists in Moe’s direction.

Moe, their ever-unshakable seven-year-old, is unfazed.

“Robbie,” Steve warns her. Robbie ignores him and aims several more punches at Moe, “Amelia Robin, we talked about this.”

“I wanna wrestle!” Robbie whines, crossing her arms and stomping a sneaker-clad foot so her shoe lit up.

“You can’t just start swinging at people and call it wrestling.”

Robbie glares at him for a moment, clearly weighing her desire to exercise whatever she’s learning in karate with the consequences it would come with. She uncrosses her arms and closes her fists, looking at them thoughtfully. As Robbie fidgets with her fingers, Steve knows what’s coming, and when she eventually unfolds one of the middle ones, he just stares at her, eyebrows raised.

“Stairs,” he finally says, tipping his head in the direction of the designated ‘time-out’ spot at the bottom of the stairs.

As Robbie is trudging over to the stairs and plopping herself down on the bottom step, Eddie walks into the living room. He gets one look at his daughter pouting in time-out and says, “How? We’ve been home for five minutes?”

“She flipped Papa the bird,” Moe supplies.

“Which I blame you for, by the way,” Steve adds, giving his husband a pointed look, “Since you’re the one with the bright idea to teach that shit to them.”

Eddie feigns a bow, then points at Robbie.

“Not cool, girlie. We had a deal, did we not? No more making me look bad in front of Papa?”

Robbie shrugs, but behind the wall of curls she let fall in front of her face, Steve could just barely see the way her pout was turning into a smile, even against her will.

Eddie turned to face Steve again.

“Moe was sent to the principal’s office today,” he said.

“Why?” Steve asked.

“Well, according to her teacher, she shared her crackers with her friend during snack time, which apparently means she has to share with the whole class.”

Steve furrowed his eyebrows.

“Yeah, I dunno,” Eddie shook his head, “But according to her, Moe said ‘no, I’m seven, and this is the real world, not Communist Russia.’”

“And her teacher didn’t like that?” Steve asked sarcastically.

“No, she did not,” he replied, “And she really didn’t like when I said that I don’t think she’s wrong.”

“Another banner day for the Harrington family."

[beardedmrbean]

Unpopular opinion but I don't trust Melania. I truly believe she is using her husband for money and fame. And call me old fashioned, but the first lady should be a role model to young women and someone with a porn star past isn't capable of being that. I am NOT saying Michelle Obama was a good role model or anything either, but we can do better. First ladies used to have more class

Melania was a fashion/glamour model not anything to do with porn, the job does include being nude from time to time but it's not really in the control of the model and if they want to keep working sometimes it's what you gotta do unless you have the name recognition of the big supermodels.

And even they do the nude thing if they feel like it, source Robin Thicke's Good Times video.

Side note the Weird Al parody of that one (word crimes) occasionally pops into my head when I'm typing and helps me remember some of the rules of writing and such.

She came from a very modest background in what was still Yugoslavia and managed to catch the eye of some big names while successfully trying to make a name for herself.

Which she did as we all know.

Which in turn made her a whole lot of money, so she doesn't really need Trump for that, be why she signed the Pre-Nup without reservations.

She speaks Slovenian, English, French, Italian, and German fluently albeit with an accent, I can barely manage English some days.

She has a extensive list of accomplishments, has proven to be very smart and capable on her own and as first lady.

There's noting concrete about any degrees but it's pretty clear she's a smart woman given all the other accomplishments.

She was born in a communist country and made her way to the US and managed to wind up the 2nd foreign born first lady in US history.

So she's got some tasteful modeling shots where she's nude, it's not like she worked as a porn actress or even did lewd photoshoots.

Or are we going to call all this porn too?

She's an accomplished woman who made a big name for herself before meeting Trump and none of the stuff she did as a model is anything for her to be ashamed of at all.

My lifelong democrat dad can't stand trump and wants him locked up for both real and perceived crimes, but the only thin negative he could ever come up with for Melania is questioning her judgment when it comes to picking a partner.

Maybe we should go back to the Nancy Reagan "throat goat" jokes instead.

[redbreastedbird]

hi robin!! do you think george would still be as politically passionate by the events of bitb and would Ralph share communist/far left views? especially curious given the famine that the british government caused in india during this era. thanks!!

Oh absolutely! I’m super interested in Noor Inayat Khan - it’s impossible to think about George as a British Indian WW2 spy and not think about her - and one thing I found fascinating when I was reading about her was the way she was outspoken about being both British and Indian. She believed in the future of a free India but was also willing to be part of the British war effort - it initially made the SoE nervous but she managed to persuade them that she could be loyal to both countries.

I think that George holds similar views - he hates what the British are doing in India, but also feels that it is worth allying with them to help defeat Nazism. I do suspect that post WW2 he would become more closely tied to the Indian independence movement - but that’s all years in the future and not something I’ve thought about fully yet!