#light of freedom

[obernice]

Guys, sudden offtopic

Has anyone even noticed that the Light of Truth is radically different from the other Lights of the other Ancients?

(we will omit the fact that the light of Freedom is broken here; if it were collected, it would glow exactly the same as the others)

[zippystorm]

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Background picture I found on Google:

[scarapanna]

Concepts for the Light of Freedom this time!!

They're based off of moths/butterflies + bonus undercut

The lights all are connected to one another, but sometimes have disagreements/silly

Freedom thinks Truth is a bit too blunt with it's wielder

[iamalexjustice]

"Megatron must be stopped, no matter the cost!" Magic Square Light of Freedom aka Optimus Prime. This is a Metallic version and it's My G1 Optimus for now. The figure itself I give a MP10 out of 10. Double Knee Joint and Individual fingers are great, love the blaster, but the Energon Ax is tough to get on this guy's hand. Overall it's a good figure, not my 1 of top 12 figures if this year, but it is good.

[plutonify]

I know that canonically White Lily’s soul jam was never actually corrupted and just split up, but we can all agree that she (& Dark Enchantress) was on a very thin line or should’ve been.

With that I wanted to discuss what her corrupted soul jam would have been.

We know that the original soul jams were split in two, for example: Knowledge was split into truth & deceit (to quote Elder Faerie Cookie). So White Lily’s soul jam is already a split fragment, but then we also know that with the Dark Flour War, all of the soul jams were split into even more pieces.

White Lily Cookie has the Light of Freedom. A split fragment of the Soul Jam of Solidarity. Silent Salt has the other fragment: Silence. Solidarity was split into Freedom & Silence.

Going with that theme, I believe that the corrupted or fragment of the Light of Freedom would be

Isolation

White Lily Cookie isolated herself from her friends in her journey to find the answer of their creation

She never had her own massive kingdom and was not a household name unlike the other Ancients. Instead she had an isolated kingdom that everyone believed to be a myth

Going back to her journey, she did it alone and purposefully made sure that no one but the king knew of what she was doing

Dark Enchantress Cookie made her base the Witches Oven, an isolated place in the world that no cookies explore

All of her operations to take over the world are inside missions, she has shown herself only twice to cookies outside of the legion. She has her minions do all the work while she commands from isolation

Also the Witches Castle narrator and First Cream Cookies mistress have the exact same voice as White Lily Cookie/The Light of Freedom

[dykedvonte]

I think depictions of Anya being cruel to Curly or drawing out his suffering are artful and chilling but completely miss the point of the story and her character.

I'm not saying she doesn't deserve to have that "I told you so" moment with him but not in something callous or cold. Even if that is how it happened, she'd immediately feel guilty cause at that point she's not tormenting her tormenter or even the person truly at fault. She's doing something cathartic, similar to how Jimmy likely hits Curly to release rage he can't against the rest of the crew. She'd see herself as no different when she'd come back from the moment and see Curly cowering at her. She wants someone to take responsibility but how does being cruel to the defenseless help? Why would she want the power Jimmy has over her over Curly?

The idea of her extending someone else's pain is just so against the struggles she already faces and how she can't even bring herself to cause someone pain even to help them. Her very desire is to release herself from her own suffering and I doubt she'd even fine some sort of guilty release in being cruel to another.

[dosesofcommonsense]

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[nahoney22]

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[thebanishedreader]

Oh, what the hell, Florida.

Heyyy so I just looked at my spreadsheet of banned books and...

There are 1,402 BANNED BOOKS in the state of Florida ALONE.

To put that in perspective, on that very same spreadsheet, the number of banned books in California is: one (1).

If you guys have been following this (very new) blog and my posts, then you will know that the number of banned books in Colorado is: eight (8).

In Arkansas, it's four (4).

So. Just to reiterate, to repeat.

As of June 2023,

THE STATE OF FLORIDA HAS BANNED 1,402 BOOKS.

NEARLY HALF OF ALL BANNED BOOKS THIS YEAR, AND NEARLY THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF BANNED BOOKS IN 2022 IN TOTAL.

FLORIDA. HAS. BANNED. 1,402. BOOKS.

Please read banned books. Support libraries. Support authors. And please, please please please please, for the love of everything, stay safe. I love each and every one of you. Stay safe.

Support the American Library Association here.

[palatinewolfsblog]

"If you can't question it it's not science. It's propaganda." U.N. Owen.

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inspired by The Rebel by Albert Camus (just an excuse to draw Sci :D)

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[contemplatingoutlander]

Is It Fascism? A Leading Historian Changes His Mind.

Robert Paxton thought the label was overused. But now he’s alarmed by what he sees in global politics — including Trumpism.

When the foremost historian on fascism, Robert Paxton, who has been reluctant in the past to apply that label to Trump, finally admits that Trump IS a fascist it's time to pay attention.

This is a gift🎁link so you can read the entire article. Below are some excerpts.

Jan. 6 proved to be a turning point. For an American historian of 20th-century Europe, it was hard not to see in the insurrection echoes of Mussolini’s Blackshirts, who marched on Rome in 1922 and took over the capital, or of the violent riot at the French Parliament in 1934 by veterans and far-right groups who sought to disrupt the swearing in of a new left-wing government. But the analogies were less important than what Paxton regarded as a transformation of Trumpism itself. “The turn to violence was so explicit and so overt and so intentional, that you had to change what you said about it,” Paxton told me. “It just seemed to me that a new language was necessary, because a new thing was happening.” When an editor at Newsweek reached out to Paxton, he decided to publicly declare a change of mind. In a column that appeared online on Jan. 11, 2021, Paxton wrote that the invasion of the Capitol “removes my objection to the fascist label.” Trump’s “open encouragement of civic violence to overturn an election crosses a red line,” he went on. “The label now seems not just acceptable but necessary.” [...] This summer I asked Paxton if, nearly four years later, he stood by his pronouncement. Cautious but forthright, he told me that he doesn’t believe using the word is politically helpful in any way, but he confirmed the diagnosis. “It’s bubbling up from below in very worrisome ways, and that’s very much like the original fascisms,” Paxton said. “It’s the real thing. It really is.” [emphasis added]

Remember, fascism typically involves a cult of personality. Hitler was wildly popular with ordinary Germans.

It's no coincidence that Trump is so obsessed with the numbers at his rallies.