#justice for sava

[summerongrand]

Lucy had THE PERFECT opportunity to create a UC nanny persona

using Sava Wu's nanny alias "Karen" and she didn't 💔

[screenshotsonpinterest]

Luke Castellan is a tragic character, a broken man, a cutie with a lot of valid anger

But he came for my girls and i can’t have that so I will be breaking his knees

[fxiryeon]

Chiron: All of you, explain yourselves right now.

Annabeth: It was Luke-

Grover: It was Luke-

Percy: It was Luke-

Luke: You guys ?? You promised to not tell !?

Y/N: *mumbles* It was Luke

Luke: Not you too ??

[blog-only-for-palestine]

Lama Alfakhoury

a mother, Activist and Palestinian prisoner

Today she was searched and photographed naked by a male IDF sergeant.

she was threatened to be raped by 20 soldiers and her children be burnt.

She was told: "You are a prisoner of war and we can do whatever we want"

[thekillingvote]

Tʜᴇ Kɪʟʟɪɴɢ Vᴏᴛᴇ

Thirty-five years ago, DC Comics opened a phone poll to kill Batman's child sidekick, Robin.

The poll was open to paying callers in the U.S. and Canada for a window of 35 hours, starting on 15 September 1988 at 9AM EST. There were two premium-rate phone numbers—one for Robin's survival, and one for Robin's death. Each paying caller could call multiple times. The results were decided by a margin of 72 votes out of a total 10,614 votes—the difference was just under 0.68%.

Now you decide.

KILL ROBIN

Jerry Smith of Covington, Kentucky claims to have sold his Mercedes-Benz to pay for votes to kill Robin

"Who Killed Cock(y) Robin? I Killed Cock(y) Robin" article by Glen Weldon (2008)

"1-800-DEAD-ROBIN" autobiographical comic by Tony Wolf (2015)

"We killed Jason Todd" feature by Matt Markman (2021)

SAVE ROBIN

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), a noted Bat-fan and scholar, denounced the episode as a "Roman gladiator-like readers vote."

"I loved him [...] I personally voted for him to live 100 times, and my mom flipped when she saw the phone bill," says magazine writer Savas Abadsidis.

MJG6 said: I was dead broke, working my way through college, but I voted. My first job was at a comic book store, making me an OG fan girl, I guess, and I encouraged people to vote to save him. [...] Because killing a teen, in a role kids are supposed to identify with, that was just sick.

Further Reading

"A Death in the Family, or: How DC Comics Let a Phone Vote Kill Robin" via r/HobbyDrama

"Living Dead Boy: Jason Todd vs. The Culture That Killed (and Resurrected) Him" on Women Write About Comics

"The Vote to Kill Robin" - trivia, misconceptions, opinions by comic-commentary

Some fan letter columns from Jason's later times as Robin

No Birds Allowed: Batman without Robin

"A lot like Robin if you close your eyes": Displacement of meaning in the Post-Modern Age by Mary Borsellino, an essay on dead Robins, sexism, and classism

🦞 The Tale of Larry the Lobster 🦞

Submitted arguments below:

Kill Robin

Anonymous propaganda IN FAVOR of killing the lobster the Robin!

I love Jason Todd. I love his post-crisis Robin days, I love his sense of justice and his adorable love of learning and his silly curly bangs! I say this to emphasize that I don't want him killed out of any dislike of the character.

I want him dead out of a love for storytelling that gets to stick to its guns and doesn't pull its punches. In context of the poll we readers have just seen Dick Grayson get kicked out of the role due to Bruce's fear of him getting hurt, then he turns around and gets a new Robin anyways because he misses him! I really like that Bruce is being messy and hypocritical! Let that have some real consequences please!

If there were no real consequences then Dick got shoved out of being Robin for what? Hairbrained overprotective worry? Why even change the way he graduated into being Nightwing so much then or heck why even kick him out in the first place?

One might argue that we haven't even given this Robin proper time to develop, that instead he might be taken in new and interesting directions as his own unique Robin shaping the mantle into a legacy rather than just something that was Dick's. I admit this is a very good point, and we are cutting off some possible interesting avenues. As I mentioned, I do like this character! But are we really going to get that?

If DC is already prepared to toss him out of this mortal coil and through the pearly gates after such a short while, do we really think we're going to get much more love and care applied to him?

I say let's roll the dice for something new! May the comics world and all these characters have to deal with the ramifications for many years to come!

Save Robin

robin’s death (and subsequent resurrection) is, frankly, an insult to robin fans of that era. to want to see this child get killed in a brutal manner for no apparent reason, to see jason essentially removed from the narrative so batman could go back to being gritty and depressed—this is awful to me. he hadn’t even been robin for very long!

but that’s not why he should’ve lived.

the resurrection of jason todd as the red hood was narratively interesting enough that it kept most fans of the original jason hooked, and it still does! he has become a prime example of a trauma survivor: his death changed him, and those who loved him have difficulty accepting that.

but there is no resolution to that story, nor was there a resolution to jason’s tenure as robin. dick chose to leave robin behind and take on a new mantle. tim, steph, both had robin taken away from them (and let’s forget about how tim is still robin, because that doesn’t matter right now). damian’s role as robin conflicts with his misconception of his role in the family. everyone else has had an ending, and jason’s death…well. after his resurrection, he has somehow remained stagnant and wildly inconsistent at the same time. this applies to under the red hood too.

at its core, utrh is a deeply classist retelling of jason’s life pre-death in the family. winick makes him a villain—albeit a sympathetic one—who fucks over or kills people that he would’ve thrown himself in front of to save as robin. in utrh, the implication is that jason had always been violent and angry (and morally compromised), and that he was destined to become worse.

it sometimes feels that jason’s transition into being the red hood (and all the characterization that comes with that) was a decision dc made for shock value. just from jason’s robin run, it’s difficult to imagine jason becoming the red hood. it doesn’t feel inevitable. it’s tragic.

ultimately, i believe that jason never should have died, and that his death was a stunt by dc for its shock value. jim starlin wanted jason dead because to him a child sidekick, in a medium that was originally made for children, was “sheer insanity”. he was fridged, plain and simple.

[fromdusks]

you know what?

JUSTICE FOR JAKE AND SAVA. SOULMATES SEPARATED TOO SOON.

[vianna-alicia-draws]

Aopo!

for Dragonwolfspirit214 // Dragonwolfspirit214A 's raffle for some extra tickets. Have Aapo!

art notes I guess:

Lmao I tried painting after 8 years. I did one before this which I am not posting. He has such a pretty design and I just can't do it justice with paints.

I kinda just picked them up today and said I'M GONNA PAINT TODAY even thought I knew it would look shit. Buuuuuttttt I'm actually quite happy with it I had so much fun just messing around with paints >w<

I used a lot of tips by Scott Christian Sava and Kim Diaz Holm while making this, I used a mix of both wet on wet and wet on dry. I am looking forward to more painting. Expect it as a way for me to make a less time consuming drawing as digital art still takes forever

also, sorry for not posting for a while, life has been hard and for the next few days I'll be posting a bunch of competition stuff as several artists reached milestones and have due dates for these for 1st to 10th june

Anyways, have an amazing day <33333

find dragonwolfspirit here: https://www.deviantart.com/dragonwolfspirit214

Aapo: https://toyhou.se/25992551.aapo

my other socials: https://linktr.ee/Vianna_Darkness_RIdge

[multiversefandomsfanfics]

Can someone write a fanfiction where Jake and Sava are living the life of Bonnie and Clyde, robbing banks, killing people, pretending someone they are not to get what they want, etc... While Tim and Lucy are determined to catch them and bring them to justice.

Kind of like a catch me if you can type of story.

[blufox234isadumbname]

4 and 7 for the ask game :)

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw

i love my c!fundy design but i am NOT a furry artist, which is why i either draw him in his very depressed form (doomsday - las nevadas era) or jsut waist up, or secret option (completely fforget he has them paws)

honourable mention -> tommyinnit's hair, like i can never firgure out a hairstyle that fully emulates him, genrall any guy that has that slick back hair i cant justice without it looking like sonic (looks at mariana)

7. A medium of art you don't work in but appreciate

Goache painting, my friend does goache paints sometimes and he's fuckin stellar. i also follow Scott Christian Sava, who does mainly watercolours but also gouache and OH MY GOD;;;; litterally anyone who does tradiditonal painting; how? HOW?\

{ASK GAME}

[sophieshifts]

౨ৎ my teen fame dr

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» about me: my name is sophie ortega, i am a teen actor. i'm 14 years old, and i've just landed a role in pjo season 2!

» face claim: ariana greenblatt

» s/o: walker scobell

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» my career:

some movies i've been in:

• enola holmes: young enola (age 8)

• we can be heroes: missy moreno (age 10)

• matilda: matilda (age 9)

• frozen: young anna (age 11)

• moana: young moana (age 8)

some tv shows i've been in:

• stuck in the middle: daphne diaz (age 6)

• pjo season 2+: silena beauregard (age 14 onwards)

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» my friends:

leah sava' jeffries, aryan simhadri, dior goodjohn, charlie bushnell, momona tamada, mason thames, xochitl gomez, ariana greenblatt (we are like victoria justice & nina dobrev), & mckenna grace!

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i love this dr so so much, im so excited to shift there! the amount of scenarios i have are CRAZY, lmk if you'd like to hear some, or if you want a more in depth post abt this dr!

lots of love,

sophie xoxo

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"...the activities of both the OBU [One Big Union] and the IWW [Industrial Workers of the World] in the Lakehead region did lead to increased surveillance by federal, provincial, and municipal authorities. The existence of the Monthly and other publications in the declassified files of American and Canadian archives indicates that authorities in both countries watched both organizations carefully. The RCMP and OPP [Ontario provincial police] were keenly aware that the IWW was indifferent to borders. Minnesota was an IWW stronghold in the United States. The Lakehead Finns, especially, were suspected of being influenced by cross-border radicalism. Suspected agitators were often arrested on both sides of the border. Worried about a possible repeat of Winnipeg in Northwestern Ontario, authorities identified the Lakehead as the centre of any potential problems and began to clamp down on the activities of all groups. Anything and anyone even remotely suspected of being revolutionary fell under surveillance. Suspected agitators were often arrested. The OPP in Northwestern Ontario worked closely with its American and RCMP counterparts in investigations involving the OBU and IWW. The proposed strike of January 1920, for example, saw RCMP, regional OPP, and District Intelligence Officers from St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Duluth all working together. Officials shared intelligence and coordinated their activities in an attempt to disrupt these organizations and arrest workers. The OPP concluded that the OBU and IWW were the same (even if they were in fact two separate bodies). They noted that most of the OBU organizers in the region had come from British Columbia and Minnesota. According to a plan adopted on both sides of the Minnesota-Ontario border, if a strike did occur, lumber companies would shut down and “try, and starve the strikers out.” Canadian and American authorities also worked together to stem the flow of socialist material between the two countries and to deport to Europe suspected Wobblies.

Following a tip from American authorities, the RCMP, for example, arrested William Salo of Fort William for possessing “socialist” literature. His Winnipeg lawyer, E.J. McMurray, described Salo’s actions as merely

stepping outside of the iron band that the government proposed to put around his mind, and desired to find out what was being done in the outside world, which the government endeavours to keep hidden from the eyes of the people of this country.

For McMurray, this was an issue of liberty and freedom from the growing intolerance of the Canadian government, which he compared to pre-revolutionary Russia. The case against Salo, he argued, was

a case of brainless police court jurisdiction, a performance by an immature mind on the magisterial bench that has made the justice of this land in many cases an object of contempt and enmity rather than a respected institution.

McMurray was also involved in the deportation case involving Sava W. Zura, a leading member of the Ukrainian League formed in April 1919. A resident of the Lakehead for over seven years, Zura’s bakeshop had been searched in late September and, after being apprehended by police at the border, he had been arrested and convicted for possessing “Bolsheviki” and IWW literature. Police in Fort William considered him the “main promoter” of “prohibited literature among the foreign element.” Workers in both cities rallied behind Zura, with Harry Bryan being the most notable voice. Despite the absence of prior transgressions and the testimony by many local residents as to his good character, Zura was sentenced to two years in Stony Mountain Penitentiary in Manitoba. Mrs. Zura was later apprehended by Immigration Department agents in Winnipeg, and was also interrogated concerning the evidence."

- Michel S. Beaulieu, Labour at the Lakehead: Ethnicity, Socialism, and Politics, 1900-35. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2011. p. 79-81.

[uclpact]

We are pleased to announce our podcast ‘Left to be Desired’ is now live. In episode 1 of Left to be Desired, Maja and Reuben Fowkes talk to Austrian artist Oliver Ressler about his recent work around extractivism and explore connections with socialist geographies.

Left to be Desired is available to listen to on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music/Audible and Audacy. You can also access it via the podcast website: https://lefttobedesired.libsyn.com/site

Left to be Desired podcast explores the distinctiveness of the socialist path through the Anthropocene by bringing together artistic and scholarly insights into the ecologies of global Socialism. Maja & Reuben Fowkes will invite artists and researchers to talk about their practice and exchange ideas at the intersection of ecology, climate change, art and the Socialist Anthropocene.

Oliver Ressler is an artist and filmmaker who produces installations, projects in public space, and films on issues such as economics, democracy, migration, the climate crisis, forms of resistance and social alternatives. Since 2019 Ressler directs Barricading the Ice Sheets, a research project on the climate justice movement, funded by the Austrian Science Fund, that lead to an exhibition at Camera Austria in Graz in September 2021. Barricading the Ice Sheets is currently on view at The Showroom

Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts (SAVA) is the first large-scale interdisciplinary research project that institutes the Socialist Anthropocene as a new field of study within the critical corpus concerned with challenging and decentring the West-centric discourses of the Anthropocene, asserting the constitutive role of the twentieth century environmental histories of Socialism in the formation of the new geological age. It is led by Maja and Reuben Fowkes, who are art historians, curators and co-directors of the Postsocialist Art Centre (PACT) at Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London.

This podcast is edited by Sammara Abbasi.

[rebeccalemaster]

Demand Justice for Two Pro-Lifers Who Were Brutally Attacked | American Center for Law and Justice

[wrrdbrrd]

A ghost story, sort of

I don’t believe in ghosts, not in the supernatural sense. But I have had a kind of encounter with something that was left of a person long after they died.

(Sorry, this is going to be a long one. CW for discussion of death.)

When I was a teenager, maybe fourteen or fifteen, I joined a Star Trek-themed play-by-email roleplaying group. (Why yes, thank you, I am very cool.) It was a “fleet” of maybe a dozen starships, each running its own separate mailing list. Each player on a given ship wrote in character as an individual Starfleet officer. Of course, one person was the captain, and they were something like the game’s GM.

I had two captains in that game who both left a profound impression on me. The first was named Max, and his story is very important to me and I’ll maybe write about it another time, but today I want to write about Sava, who made me feel a lot of things about the nature of life online.

Ironically, I never got to know Sava very well as a person. I learned a lot about writing from him, though, and I loved the character he played very much. Captain Crow was, to my mind, everything a starship captain should be: authoritative yet flexible, morally complex but always driven by a strong sense of justice. His emails were always a joy to read, and the rare moments when our characters got to play directly off each other were some of my favourites in that game. There are many reasons why there’s a corvid in my avatar, but one of them is a little nod to Captain Crow.

But then, one day, we got an email from someone who introduced herself as his ex-wife. Sava had died in a motorcycle accident. His wife and children, she said, had at least been able to say goodbye in the hospital.

We didn’t know he had an ex-wife. I don’t think we knew he had kids. He’d been a very reliable presence in our lives for years without us ever really learning anything about him.

But that was our last chance to learn anything at all. Sava was gone, and so was Captain Crow. We wrote the best send-off we could for his character, tied up as many of his plot threads as possible, and kept playing.

I can’t remember what prompted me, late one night several years later, to go back and read some of his final posts. It’s possible I was trying to refresh myself on an old plot point, but I think maybe I just missed his writing. Whatever I had meant to do, it instead got me sidetracked wondering about this person I’d known for years and hadn’t known at all. Who always signed off his emails with the same few cryptic lines of poetry.

Out of curiosity, I googled the lines in question. It turned out it wasn’t a poem, it was the start of a song.

I really like this song. It’s impossible for me to separate my feelings about it from the person I slightly hero-worshipped as a teenager, of course, but either way, I love it. Now that I knew the reference, I realised Sava had sprinkled his writing with occasional sly references to this band, imagining that by the 24th century they would be musical legends on a galactic scale. He never got to hear their second album, or their third through tenth for that matter, but I think he’d have been pleased to see them keep on rising.

I felt like I’d finally made a connection with Sava, in some small way. It was a strange time-delayed connection, a kind of parasocial one, but it meant something all the same.

(Considering the way I discovered this song, it also felt significant that, by some cosmic coincidence, it’s called Late Goodbye. The devil grins from ear to ear when he sees the hand he’s dealt us.)

So then I went a step further, and I did something that would have been pretty creepy if he were still alive. Maybe it was still creepy anyway? I googled his full name, and I found his LiveJournal.

I could tell it was his because of certain context clues: a familiar username, more references to that one band. His posts were all still there, up to and including a final note from his family for those who hadn’t heard the sad news some other way.

I didn’t go back through the whole thing, but I read a few pages’ worth of posts. It was all pretty mundane daily-life stuff, plus the occasional very long meditation on how much he loved writing. (Truly, he was a blogger.) It was no substitute for what I had missed out on – talking to the man, genuinely getting to know him – but I felt like I understood him a little better afterwards, and that was nice. And I still listen to Poets of the Fall.

Like I said, I don’t believe in ghosts, but it’s hard not to think of that LiveJournal as a kind of digital shade of the man I almost knew. Those of us who are very online tend to do the same thing as Sava – we put pieces of ourselves out there, semi-permanently, in semi-public view. Websites rise and fall pretty regularly, though, and I wonder what proportion of online profiles actually outlast their owners. I know most of mine have been lost already, and I don’t really think it's likely that the rest of them will surpass my own life expectancy. But, hey, maybe I’m being pessimistic. So, if this post beats the odds, and you’re somehow reading it many decades in the future after I'm long gone: Boo. 👻

[sorry-its-sam]

hello yes i’d like to order one drawing of grown up book!annabeth passing her baseball cap (and maybe her dagger idk) to leah, our brand new show!annabeth as a symbol of leah and a POC!annabeth being the new incarnation of our beloved girl and also they should hug please and thanks

[minamorsart]

I made this back in early February right after finishing season 1 of Skam Italia. No regrets!!!! I love Eleonora ❤️