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drifters-lil-swamp-shrimp · 5 years ago

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Are your guardians particularly close with anyone? Either npcs or friends' ocs~ 👀

They’re all pretty close to different NPCs and friends’ ocs. I’ll try to list them off and remember as best I can lol

Zaya and Cayde-6 were are best friends. He helped her out a lot when she was still a fairly new Guardian and had lost her fireteam, and their friendship evolved from there.

Zaya is also pretty close with Lord Shaxx. They had a brief relationship back in the day but broke it off because of work, but they’re still good friends.

Zaya is married to the Drifter, too, so... that’s pretty self explanatory asgshska

As far as other friends oc’s she’s pretty close to a good few. Before Zaya became a Guardian she lived in the Reef with her dad. She went by Nira at the time and was pretty close to my friend @one-berzerker ‘s ocs Fjord and Dove. Fjord was like a dad to her, and Dove was like her little sister. They all reunited later on in Zaya’s Guardian life so they’re a happy family.

She’s also close to my friend @kazebtw ‘s twins Nurea and Vuran. They’re Zaya’s half brother and sister and she raises them when their parents die. There’s some drama that goes down between them surrounding Zaya’s death and queen Mara lying and manipulating them, but they all reunite in the end as well 💕

Jaxx-0 and my friend @thatwhobumblesabout ‘s cute lil Exo boy Farad-7 totally hooked up in their slut days,, so it’s pretty spicy 👀 💦

I also sorta ship Jaxx-1 with Shiro-4 but,,, not exactly sure how to go about that yet so we’ll see

Jaxx-1 and @one-berzerker ‘s Dove also meet in the Plaguelands and kick ass together

Nirgal and @kazebtw ‘s Vuran are married and they’re super gay and cute together

Akira had a really brief, but really intense crush on Hawthorne but after she got over it they stayed really good friends.

Akira is also pretty close with Eris Morn,, she helped her avenge her fireteam and her dead parents so yeah,, she’s one of the few that can make Eris laugh or smile

Akira is also pretty close with Cayde,,, he insists she should’ve been a Hunter instead of a Warlock and so adopted her instead 😂

Deon was basically raised by the Vanguard,, Zavala is his dad and Ikora and Cayde are his weird aunt and uncle so they’re pretty close too.

Deon also was always the biggest Saint-14 fan and after saving him they became really good friends. Saint constantly goes over to Deon and his husband’s place for dinner parties 👀 (their daughter Saoirse absolutely loves Saint too, he’s like her uncle at this point).

And my baby boy Uriah and @thatwhobumblesabout ‘s Farad-8 are the cutest boyfriends ever and I’m love them a lot 💕

This answer is super super long and I know it doesn’t cover everything but yeah,,, I hope that answers the question 👀 thank you so much! 💕

#my ocs #anon #thank you so much for asking!#i could go more in depth about any one of them if youd like tho #destiny ocs #zaya #jaxx #nirgal #akira #kasei #deon #uriah

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dr-archeville · 7 years ago

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INDY Primer: Bill Bell Backs Farad Ali + the Trump Gold Star Saga Continues [2017/10/20]

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Happy Friday, y’all. Thanks to everyone who made it out to the Farm Sanctuary event last evening. If you didn’t, check out the INDY’s Twitter feed (@indyweek), where we were live-tweeting the event. And I’d like to once again thank this week’s sponsor, the John Brown Big Band, which will be playing tomorrow night at the Carolina Theatre with famed trumpeter Nicholas Payton to celebrate the one-hundredth birthday of Dizzy Gillespie. You should definitely check that out if you can. (Also: you can find the web-browser version of this newsletter by clicking here. Share with friends!)

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1. THE TRUMP/GOLD STAR FAMILIES SAGA CONTINUES, SIGH.

THE GIST: With any luck, this will be the last time this depressing story consumes the headlines, because the rabbit hole into which we’ve dove boggles the mind. Anyway. Yesterday, Donald Trump trotted out his chief of staff, John Kelly, to address allegations made by Democratic congresswoman Frederica Wilson of Miami that he was insensitive to the wife of a fallen soldier. Kelly, while basically confirming that Wilson had told the truth about what Trump said, told reporters that he was “stunned” that she was listening to the private call (which he was also listening to).

"I was stunned when I came to work yesterday morning, and brokenhearted at what I saw a member of Congress doing, a member of Congress who listened in on a phone call from the President of the United States to a young wife, and in his way, tried to express that opinion: that he's a brave man, a fallen hero."

The NYT: “Mr. Kelly accused Ms. Wilson — who was in a car with Ms. Johnson when Mr. Trump called and is a longtime family friend — of being a publicity-seeking opportunist. He said that the congresswoman’s willingness to breach the confidentiality of Mr. Trump’s words is evidence of a broader decline in the values of an American society that no longer treats women, religion, ‘life’ or Gold Star families as sacred.”

“He testified to the deep pain that parents feel when they get an early-morning knock on the door from an official to tell them that their son or daughter has been killed in action. ‘The casualty officer proceeds to break the heart of a family member,’ Mr. Kelly said, his eyes reddening as he spoke. And he described the moment that he got the knock on his own door: A military official telling him that his son ‘was doing exactly what he wanted to do when he was killed,’ Mr. Kelly recalled. ‘He knew what he was getting into by joining that 1 percent. He knew what the possibilities were because we were at war.’”

“He said Mr. Trump was merely trying to express what Mr. Kelly had discussed with the president before the phone call — that soldiers like Sergeant Johnson were doing what they loved, and what they had chosen to do, when they were killed serving the country. ‘That’s what the president tried to say to four families,’ Mr. Kelly said. He later appeared to attack Ms. Wilson by noting that, during an emotional 2015 ceremony, a congresswoman had crassly claimed political credit for getting funding for an F.B.I. building in Miami that was named for fallen agents. Ms. Wilson’s congressional district includes parts of Miami.”

According to the Miami Herald, he got facts wrong about that anecdote: “Kelly criticized Democratic U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson for claiming ‘she got the money’ for the new building during the 2015 ceremony while he and others in the audience were focused on the heroism of agents Benjamin Grogan and Jerry Dove, killed during a 1986 shootout with bank robbers south of Miami. Thursday night, Wilson said Kelly got the story flat-out wrong. In fact, she said Washington approved the money before she was even in Congress. The legislation she sponsored named the building after [two FBI agents who were killed in action in 1986], a law enacted just days before the ceremony.”

Related: Chuck Strouse, the editor of Miami New Times — who has covered the city’s politics since I was in grade school — says Wilson is a much more credible person than Trump: “So, President Lying Guttersnipe, you attacked Sen. John McCain for lack of heroism and embarrassed both yourself and the nation. And now you've attacked Rep. Frederica Wilson. You need to just stop talking. And tweeting. ”

WHAT IT MEANS: Kelly, whose son was killed in battle, has considerably more credibility on these matters than the president. And he was probably the only one who could effectively defend what, to the outside observer, seems indefensible.

“The president had made, or faced, a number of startling accusations in a 48-hour span: He first said previous presidents did not call families of dead soldiers, which was rebutted by their aides. Then, a congresswoman and the family of a slain soldier charged Trump with being insensitive in a phone call to the widow, saying Trump left her in tears. Finally, the father of another dead soldier accused Trump of offering $25,000 and then not paying. Trump wrote the check this week after The Washington Post initially published the story; it was promised in June. Kelly, long reticent of talking about his son's 2010 death, was not thrilled that Trump made his personal devastation a political football, said several people who know him. But his boss was in a jam — and he decided to come into the briefing room after telling others Trump was being treated unfairly, and that he hated seeing dead soldiers become a political cudgel.”

“The chief of staff also seemed to admit the president was far from perfect in an implicit rebuke. He told the briefing room that women were once sacred in the United States — not mentioning his boss' famous boast that he could sexually assault them because he was famous. He mentioned that Gold Star families were also once untouchable — not mentioning the president's lengthy imbroglio with the Khan family last summer after the Democratic National Convention. He talked about the dangers of military service without mentioning that his boss mocked Sen. John McCain for being held hostage and tortured in Vietnam.”

So we know Trump said what Wilson said he said — and did so on the advice of Kelly. Why not just admit that straight out, apologize to the family for any misunderstanding, and move on? As Kelly said, there’s no perfect to make those calls. And people would largely understand if Trump simply got his words mangled. But instead of apologizing, Trump is still attacking.

Related: A Gold Star widow had a much better conversation with Trump and provided audio to CNN.

Also related: North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis says Trump has “shown more respect for our troops in nine months” than President Obama ever did, in part because he criticized NFL players kneeling for the anthem.

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2. BILL BELL ENDORSES FARAD ALI.

THE GIST: At a surprise press conference yesterday afternoon, outgoing Durham mayor Bill Bell announced that he wanted Farad Ali — not council member Steve Schewel — to succeed him. It was a tough choice, Bell said, because both are his friends and both have experience. But he was backing Ali because that would keep Schewel on the council and the council would have more experience. Which, to be honest, isn’t the strongest argument I’ve ever heard, considering that, should Schewel win, the council would pick his successor, and they could very well pick Ali.

“Bell had already made a public endorsement in the Ward 1 city council race, supporting incumbent and mayor pro tem Cora Cole-McFadden, but had yet to weigh in on the mayor's race, which will see Ali go up against current city councilman Steve Schewel. The two earned the most votes out of seven candidates on the ballot.”

“He said Ali has continued to be ‘a catalyst for bringing economic benefits to Durham’ after his four years on the city council. ‘Because of his successes, Farad's been sort of a go-to man for large industries, small industries, businesses, nonprofits, and he has facilitated great collaboration between the city and county,’ Bell said. ‘He has never wavered in his commitment to deliver results that put Durham first.’”

"By electing Farad Ali as mayor, we will be assured that at least four of our seven city council members will have had city council experience — not only important but crucial in setting policy and direction for the city and the city administration, which will have to execute those policies as decided by the majority of the city council," Bell said.

WHAT IT MEANS: In last week’s voting, Ali got 29 percent of the vote to Schewel’s 51. That means that, unless the composition of the electorate changes markedly — possible in a low-turnout election — Schewel is a big favorite to win, as it’s unlikely all or even most of third-place finisher Pierce Freelon’s votes would go to Ali. So it’s striking, then, that Bell is throwing his weight behind a big underdog in a race he seems likely to lose, especially given that his other endorsed candidate, Cole-McFadden, faces an uphill climb as well. What would it say about Bell’s legacy if the only two candidates he backed both lost? On the other hand, Bell has been a popular mayor, winning reelection easily year after year. Maybe his clout is enough to drag Ali past the finish line.

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3. SIX LOCAL HEADLINES.

Most Raleigh City Council members are reluctant to endorse in the mayor’s race. [INDY]

We’re looking at a warmer, drier winter this year, thanks to La Nina. [N&O]

UNC-Chapel Hill has fired two lawyers associated with the UNC Center for Civil Rights, after the Board of Governors knee-capped the center. [N&O]

Caitlin Atwater renewed the $25 million judgment against Michael Peterson, who earlier this year entered an Alford plea admitting that the cops had enough evidence to convict him in the death of Kathleen Peterson, Atwater’s mother. [N&O]

Duke is ranked number one in the USA Today preseason poll. UNC is ranked ninth. [N&O]

Carrboro scored highly on the Human Rights Campaign’s municipal equity index, with Durham and Chapel Hill close behind. Cary, you’ve got some work to do. [DHS]

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4. NINE POLITICAL HEADLINES.

In separate speeches, and without saying his name, Presidents Bush and Obama offer implicit rebukes of Trump and Trumpism. [NYT]

On a 51–49 vote, the Senate approves a budget that will pave the way for massive tax cuts — and another $1.5 trillion in deficits. [NYT]

Senator John McCain threatens a subpoena to get records on the ambush in Niger. [Politico]

A federal judge rules that Trump’s pardon of Joe Arpaio doesn’t negate his conviction. [NY Mag]

There are now eight prototypes for Trump’s dumb border wall in San Diego. [AP]

Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran seems to not be doing all that well. [Politico]

On Monday, Trump surprised his advisers by announcing a soon-to-come opioid plan. Now, those advisers are scrambling to write the damn thing. [Daily Beast]

Democratic National Convention chairman Tom Perez nominated a new slate of candidates for party committees. The Bernie Sanders wing of the party is worried about a purge. [WaPo]

Trump gives himself a ten for his administration’s response to Puerto Rico. [Politico]

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6. ODDS & ENDS.

Los Angeles cops are investigating rape allegations against Harvey Weinstein.

Quentin Tarantino says he knew about Weinstein and regrets not saying anything.

A former model has accused magician David Blaine of rape.

A pastor whom Trump invited to the Oval Office says Hollywood is full of satanists who drink blood and engage in human child sacrifice.

Abortion rates are in decline, but there’s no single reason why.

Thousands of protesters showed up in Florida, drowning out white nationalist Richard Spencer’s speech.

Bad news: climate change is imperiling coffee now. Good news: there’s a new variety of coffee plant that may be able to withstand the heat.

In a series of tweets, the CIA says bomb-sniffing wasn’t for Lulu, a black Lab who flunked out of puppy class.

Another beautiful day. Clear and a high of 78.

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#current events #Donald Trump #NC #Durham #UNC Center for Civil Rights

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kyojinofbraveos · 8 years ago

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Well, nobody has tagged me and this is a tag meme but I am an attention whore who really really wants to join in and also I have free time add

Rules: Answer the questions in a new post and tag blogs you would like to get to know better.

Nickname?

Berfino, Berfo, Berfocan, Berfike, Ezgullah, Ezgican, Ezgo, Esgü,( bolded ones are the most used ones)

Star sign?

Capricorn.

Height?

1.70 . (some say i am really tall but i don’t think so asdfd)

Time right now?

18:43

Favorite music artist(s)?

3 doors down, Deep Purple, Epica, Linkin Park, Led Zeppelin, One Republic, Edith Piaf and many (so many) French artist I can’t neither pronounce or write their names,Muse, Wagakki Band, Pera, Manga, Ramin Dwajadi’s, Hans Zimmer’s, Ennio Morricone’s and Hiyoruki Sawano’s soundtracks omg, some vocaloid songs, Foozhan Orchestra, Marjan Farad, Kardeş Türküler, Cem Karaca, Zeki Müren, Barış Akarsu, Teoman, Mor ve Ötesi and my country’s folk songs <3

Song stuck in your head?

Kryptonite by 3 Doors Down.

If I go crazy then will you still call me Superman ♫♫

Last movie watched?

Kimi no na wa :’((( go and watch it guys

Last TV show watched?

I am rewatching Friends cause you can never watch it enough ads

What are you wearing right now?

A black sweater and skinny jeans <3

When did you create your blog?

Well, if I am not wrong then I created it in July? I guess. I am not sure though, but I remember my first follower! I want to thank that porn blog for seeing potential on my empty dash ahdfj

What kind of stuff do you post?

Mostly SnK. Mostly reblog but sometimes if I don’t feel lazy enough inspiration finds me and we write metas or make edits together.

Do you have other blogs?

Nope. I barely handle this little one, I don’t think I can put effort on some other.

Do you get asks regularly?

Actually my message box used to be empty but rn I have some sweet friends who fills it :D Still, it hasn’t been so long so I am saying no. But asks are always open and you are always welcome!

Why did you choose your URL?

My url, kyojinofbraveos is a mix of my two major fandoms that ruins my life, Shingeki no Kyojin and Game of Thrones. You know, in asoiaf world there is a city called Braavos and it has a giant titan (kyojin) at entrance of this great city.

As you can see. In Japanese, Kyojin means Titan so I just mixed these to. The reason it is braveos, not Braavos is bc I want to show my respect to all those brave, and mostly dead, characters in these shows. Also I want to be brave too, bc these are hard times to endure and 2016 ruined me.

Gender?

Female!

Hogwarts House?

Ravenclaw with a tiny bit of Hufflepuff.

Pokemon Team?

Instinct.

Favorite color?

Green, green green!

Average hours of sleep?

It is not regular, I sometimes spend 2-3 days without sleeping, and sometimes sleep 12+ hours, sometimes 5,8... If I had to make a guess, I’d say... Ummm. 7?

Lucky number?

13 and 24.

Favorite Characters?

FMA: Edward Elric

KnK: Akihito Kanbara

Tokyo Ghoul: ETOOO <3 and also, hehe Kaneki, Touka, Hide and Nishiki

Got& asoiaf: Arya Stark, Bran Stark, Jon Snow, Brienne of Tarth, Ned Stark, Catelyn Stark, actually why am I not just writing All Starks That Has Ever Been Existed, Tyrion Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen, Brendyn Tully.

SnK: The Ackermans, Armin Arlert, Zeke Jaeger (I just love this asshole), Bertolt Hoover, Annie Leonhardt,Ymir, Historia Reiss, Jean Kirschtein, actually %99 of them they are all mine <3

Gintama: Gintoki Sakata

Bleach: Rukia Kuchiki

Hunger Games: Peeta Mellarck

Hp& FTAWTFT: Newt Scamendar, Hermonie Granger.

How many blankets do you sleep with?

Dream Job?

Well, I actually wanted to be a writer bc I just don’t want to spend my life like an ordinary person and die as an ordinary person but... I dunno right now. Yes, I still write but I realized so many things as I grow up... I just love art and everything about it. I’ve always wanted to create something. I love traveling and discovering. My biggest dream is traveling around the world. I used to love learning too, but school ruined this. Hmm, maybe traveling program presenter? No, nope...

Following?

227.

Tagging: @enochmandus , @sookashira , @etoincognito , @choromeki , @matsuatsume , @teaforeverythingiamstressedof and anyone who wants to do it and have some free time like me!

#personal #tag meme #also do you guys realize that i am beating that shy bitch inside me?#and here i am #talking on my own #in tags #once again

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