#nandi answers

[bluejaysandblackbats]

thoughts on jaykyle and donnajaykyle?

This one's a fun question! I was super big into jaykyle a few years back, and I'm not as into it anymore. I'm not opposed to jaykyle. I think I'm just ambivalent.

As for donnajaykyle, I don't like the idea of Donna and Jason dating. I almost always see them in some sort of sibling dynamic or a sort of dynamic where it's like Jason's babysitter as a kid that he still sees every now and then to ask her for advice. Like I could see him having an unrequited boyhood crush, but I don't see anything beyond that. Also, I always think of how close Dick and Donna are, and I'm convinced she'd never go there.

DonnaKyle is fun and I like her for him a little more than I like JennieKyle. I think Donna is a little more levelheaded and a bit of a realist, so I like the idea of her being with someone like Kyle. She's a little more mature than him, and she's been a hero for a lot longer. I think because Kyle's age falls right between Jason and Donna's I could see him with either.

[metroidspeedrun]

🛒 👀 🤯 for those fic asks <3

🛒 What are some common things you incorporate in your fics? Themes, feels, scenes, imagery, etc.

I love writing an outsider. I think I like writing both bitter outsiders and outsiders who are kind despite their circumstances. I love writing angst so so much because of it.

👀 Tell me about an up and coming wip please!

I've been on the fence about writing an AU where Roy is raised by his mom. I was thinking of calling it "my heart walks around". I planned on writing it from her POV, but I'm not sure how to go about it yet. Without a name or a backstory, I've got kind of a blank slate to work with for her, which seems kind of tough. Hopefully, I can work something out because I'd love to write this fic. I want it to be the next one I write, though.

🤯 What's a genre you struggle with as a writer (ex. romance, action, etc.)?

Any kind of sci-fi or fantasy for sure. It involves so much worldbuilding and visuals and imagery for things that don't exist. Also, I get sidetracked and wish I could draw things to give visuals for the things I know I didn't describe well enough. Nothing ever gets done when I'm writing fantasy.

[the-duke-of-nuts]

im a little late but happy birthday!!! 😊💚🎉🎉🎉

It's fine no worries but thank you 🖤💚🖤!!!

[rebecca-quin]

Hello 🦄 remember me 👀

still bored nandy? lol

[becky-llynch]

Heyyy! I don't know how you do it but your gifs and edits of Becky that you post are on point! I just wanted to ask when you will post gifs of Becky at NXT yesterday!. Also maybe ones of Becky and Lyra since they were both awesome in their match!❤️❤️❤️

Hello thank you so much!!! I'm in exam week at college, I hope I have time to make the Gifs this week 💜

[chimerabytes]

unfortunately as is the nature of characters with the syndrome of "being only relevant for a quest or two in a specific location and Never brought up again until the end of the game but still making an impact nonetheless based on your decisions to help or hurt them" sanjar has No Fucking content. what little i can find of him is like, sanjar x zora. or sanjar x graham. and like while im peacefully saluting to you people its not my thing.

please i Desire more sanjar content. carnally. i guess im gonna have to make it myself but thats the problem!!! making all of it on my own!!!!!

[metamatar]

This is maybe a stupid question but do you think there's any ties between like orientalist trends in western countries that glorify dharmic religions and Hindutva? Like I've heard 'Hinduism is the oldest religion on Earth' and 'Hinduism/Buddhism are just so much more enlightened than savage Abrahamic religions' and 'how could there be war and oppression in India? Hindus don't believe in violence' from white liberals and it certainly seems *convenient* for Hindutva propaganda, at least.

Not stupid at all! Historically, orientalism precedes modern Hindutva. The notion of a unified Hinduism is actually constructed in the echo of oriental constructions of India, with Savarkar clearly modelling One Nation, One Race, One Language on westphalian nationhood. He will often draw on Max Mueller type of indology orientalists in his writing in constructing the Hindu claim to a golden past and thus an ethnostate.

In terms of modern connections you can see the use and abuse of orientalism in South Asian postcolonial studies depts in the west that end up peddling Hindutva ideology –

The geographer Sanjoy Chakravorty recently promised that, in his new book, he would “show how the social categories of religion and caste as they are perceived in modern-day India were developed during the British colonial rule…” The air of originality amused me. This notion has been in vogue in South Asian postcolonial studies for at least two decades. The highest expression of the genre, Nicholas Dirks’s Castes of Mind, was published in 2001. I take no issue with claiming originality for warmed-over ideas: following the neoliberal mantra of “publish or perish,” we academics do it all the time. But reading Chakravorty’s essay, I was shocked at the longevity of this particular idea, that caste as we know it is an artefact of British colonialism. For any historian of pre-colonial India, the idea is absurd. Therefore, its persistence has less to do with empirical merit, than with the peculiar dynamics of the global South Asian academy.

[...] No wonder that Hindutvadis in both countries are now quoting their works to claim that caste was never a Hindu phenomenon. As Dalits are lynched across India and upper-caste South Asian-Americans lobby to erase the history of their lower-caste compatriots from US textbooks, to traffic in this self-serving theory is unconscionable.

You can see writer sociologists beloved of western academia like Ashish Nandy argue for the "inherent difference of indian civilization makes secularism impossible" and posit that the caste ridden gandhian hinduism is the answer as though the congress wasn't full of hindutva-lites and that the capture of dalit radicalism by electoralism and grift is actually a form of redistribution. Sorry if thats not necessarily relevant I like to hate on him.

Then most importantly is the deployment of "Islamic Colonization" that Hindu India must be rescued from, which is merely cover for the rebrahmanization of the country. This periodization and perspective of Indian history is obviously riven up in British colonial orientalism, see Romila Thapar's work on precolonial India. Good piece on what the former means if you've not engaged with it, fundamentally it posits an eternal Hindu innocence.

[probablyasocialecologist]

When Keir Starmer was asked if cutting off water and supplies are actions that fall within international law, he said on live radio that Israel “does have that right”. Then, his party claimed he never said this at all. When Starmer said that Labour would not recognise Palestine unilaterally, his own shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, told the Financial Times that Labour would consider it. Nowhere are these contradictions clearer than when politicians express unequivocal support for Israel’s actions while also expressing concern for civilians in Gaza. In a post on X, Lisa Nandy, the shadow international development secretary, appeared to support the suspension of funds to UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, because “allegations this serious demand a serious response”, while also “seeking reassurances” from the prime minister that aid could still be provided. I had to read her statement several times to try to understand what she was getting at. Meanwhile, David Cameron said he was “worried” that Israel may have broken international law, but that this did not change the UK’s stance on exporting weapons to Israel. Riddle me that. You might call this tendency Schrödinger’s policy. The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said that 7 October could not be taken as licence to “dehumanise” others, but his government chose twice to invoke the right to bypass Congress and provide more weapons to Israel. This dissonance is a product of attempting to reconcile an irreconcilable position. The facts are simply too stark for anyone to confront them while plausibly continuing to support Israel’s actions in Gaza. So politicians instead resort to contradictory and sometimes wild explanations to avoid calling out these actions or demanding that anything should be done about them. The results border on derangement, such as when Nancy Pelosi told CNN that while some protesters are “spontaneous and organic and sincere”, calling for a ceasefire means giving voice to “Mr Putin’s message”. And if that wasn’t enough, last year, she told pro-Palestine protesters to go back to China, as that’s where “their headquarters is”.

[...]

Gaza has become the expression of a legitimacy crisis for an Anglo-American political class who preside over already fragile systems that deliver less and less to their populations, and whose main offering is that the alternative is worse. Things may look stable, but underneath lurk managed discontents about costs of living, diminished social mobility and the ravages wreaked by rightwing governments to which centrists provide no real answer.

[lullabyes22-blog]

Snippet - Locked Out - Forward but Never Forget/XOXO

Silco goes a step too far.

Forward but Never Forget/XOXO

Tip Jar

"Silco?"

"Hm?"

"Have you considered—" She stops, "���what Vi's death will do to Jinx?"

"I have."

"And? If you can't control her emotions, you won't be able to control the consequences."

"Jinx is resilient." Silco threads a cufflink through one sleeve, then the other. "She'll survive."

"And forgive you?"

"I'm all she has." 

Unspoken: All she'll ever have.

Sevika takes the glass of vodka, and slugs it back. Then she sets it down with a hard clink. Her expression flattens itself. He knows that look too. It's the look that says she's about to bare her throat to him, and she'll take his head off if he dares to go for it. He's struck by the threads of silver that've begun to glint in her pitch-black hair, and the crinkles at the corners of her eyes. Numberless days of combat, closeness, counsel, sewn together in a single thread: one that binds him to the past, and keeps the future in his crosshairs.

And yet she has not changed. Not at the core. Thirteen years of loyalty, heaps of bodies, and a steady acceptance of every fatality in between.

This time, he understands, the acceptance may not be as steadfast. 

"If Nandi showed up again," Sevika says. "Right now, right here, alive as the day she died, I'd have two reactions. One: I'd be so goddamn happy I'd break down crying. And two: I'd gut anyone who tried to put a hand on her again. I'd do it for her. I'd do it for me. Because it's taken me this long to get over it. It's taken me this long to even imagine a future without her in it."

Silco's scarred features are etched in the neon-striped gloom. The rest is shadow. Preternaturally still.

"I know you," Sevika goes on. "I know you'll never forget what Vander did to you. What it cost you. I know that, after all these years, you've built up a rage like nothing I've ever seen.  But what if he came back?  Would you still go through with it? Would you still want him dead?"

Silco says nothing.

He thinks of Vander as he'd seen him last: a hulk of spoiling meat. He thinks of Vander before the drowning: a blurred silhouette in red riverwater. He thinks of Vander on the Day of Ash: a behemoth in a backdrop of flames. He summons the memories up with tenderness and no hatred, even as he knows that if Vander were to resurrect now, try to threaten Jinx, he'd stab him ten times over. Wouldn't stop until the man was a corpse.

Again.

That's what the rage says. But the residue of man says: No, and no. It's a truth buried deep. Too deep to be excavated. So he leaves it alone, beneath the layers of sediment. Beneath the body of a dead man, and the promise of a better world

One Silco will carve out with his own bloodstained hands.

Crossing the room, Silco pauses at the door. The knob is bracingly cold against his palm. 

"Dead is dead," he states. "It's the living who incur the cost." 

And he'll make sure Vi pays hers.

Stock, lock, and barrel.

In the background, Sevika's stare burns into his skull. But her mouth stays shut. He leaves her like that: the woman who'd watched the dark swallow him whole, and chosen to stay beside him as the shadows lengthened. So long as it meant a city shining bright. So long as it meant home.

Now she's paying her own price: an empty flat, an empty bed, a dead man's silhouette. And a monster who'll never, ever fill any of them.

Huskily, she says. "Watch yourself."

"You know me," Silco answers.

"I do."

The words pass with a grim intensity, like a vow.

Or a renunciation.

Shutting the door behind him, Silco hears a moment's silence. Then hollow click of the deadbolt sliding home.

And he wonders, with a sudden twinge like a blade between the ribs, if Sevika has locked herself in.

Or locked him out for good.

[waltzingwithyourenemyattheball]

PICK A CARD: MYSTERY READING

Left: Pile 1; Right: Pile 2

Disclaimer:

🪈 Take what resonates and leave the rest

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Pile 1: Some of you could be Shiv bhakts, you need to see that worshipping and paying respects to shiv family is equally important, in your case Nandi Ji, learning the value of patience especially in October, not backing down from opposition, showing strength and fortitude ahead all while being patient and calm. You are not rushing the process, you are going along with it how ever long it might be because you have single-minded focus. That’s the attitude you need to adopt. That is the attitude you already have but cannot see. Someone new is entering your life, possibly a man it could be an exciting event for you, you may have been waiting for this for a long time, for some this is a mentor and a critic who will help you get better in your craft. A sincere wish is being granted. Often the mistake we make is being too rigid with our manifestations, if you look closely your wish is being fulfilled maybe in a different way, but you get what you wished for. You could meet the new person at a party or during tea time in someone else’s house, for some of you it is marriage. You might get married to your perfect partner who could be different from the one you are fixated on right now, it’s a general reading so take what resonates. You could be sensitive to criticism, and it is saying you should learn to accept valid criticism. You are being told to beware of greed, it could also lead to parting ways either in business or relationships.If someone tries to make you do anything against your wish, speak up, you are being reassured that you will be taken care of during difficult times. A meeting with a stranger could be important, it could be related to money or property. USE YOUR INTUITION TO MAKE BENEFICIAL CHANGES. Comment ‘111’ to claim this.  🌙DM for personalised tarot readings🌙

Pile 2: You are the ones who check things multiple times, you do not believe anything till you are 110% sure. If you are planning  something or making a decision that involves APRIl of 2023 or 2024, use your intuition and psychic abilities, make a decision based on that. Let yourself relax completely and let the answer come to you. YOU CANNOT SEE THIS RIGHT NOW BUT THERE IS Increase IN MATERIAL WEALTH AND SPIRITUAL GROWTH for you. It is making way, working in the background, you’ll see results soon, again April is significant. You will be shown the way in matters related to decisions, if it’s someone else trying to make you do something that is against your will, you will be shown the way too. This message was in pile 1 as well. Way to go, pile 2! You have an abundance of good news and spiritual love coming in. Some of you could be Krishna Bhakts or have a craving to live in Vrindavan near to Radhe Krishna, wish will be fulfilled, you will be called to take a trip at least. There might be sorrow and discomfort with a relative especially a younger man in your family. There is shown victory in some endeavor you are planning to undertake especially if it is something you have worked hard on so it can take off. In business do not be emotional, be resourceful and shrewd , you might experience some sadness and nostalgia  over letting something go. For business and career or personal growth I am seeing progress. If you are ever in trouble or someone is accusing you of something, do not speak in anger, control it or you will be sorry. It is time to act like a lion. Some of you could have placements in Leo or it could be your rising. HAPPINESS AND WELL-BEING IS COMING EVEN THOUGH IT DOES NOT SEEM LIKE IT, even if there is dullness right now, joy and happiness are making their way to you.  Comment ‘222’ to claim this.  🌙DM for personalised tarot readings🌙

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EL TAROT

[beansprean]

Some of my fav enablers @vampireshmampire and @phasmama and pejnt and Lu been talking about a Hercules au...

(ID in alt and under cut)

1. Full body of Jan as Hades in a long black dress with puffed sleeves and a long slit up the side over a darker black bodysuit with cutouts up the legs. She is wearing high top high heel sneakers and her hair is a blaze of blue fire. She sits on a throne made of bones, all the skulls of which are missing their incisors, and grins at the viewer with rows of sharp teeth. Behind her, the souls of the damned are wailing. She says, "Nandy, Nandy, Nandy... What do we do here in the Underworld?"

2. Reverse shot of Nandor as Meg, hair half up in a looping bun and wearing a short purple peplos clasped over both shoulders with brass brooches. He twiddles his fingers together and looks up at her nervously, responding, "We sweat?" Offscreen, Jan answers, "That's right!"

3. Wide profile shot as Jan gets up from her throne to stand in front of Nandor. One hand on her hip and the other pointing vaguely left, she says, "So go out there and work up a sweat to get that sweet little Van Helsing over here! And who knows - you may just earn back your humanity." Her grin is wide and confident, but her eyes are hard. Nandor perks up with a small smile at the mention of a reward.

4a. Knees up of Guillermo as Hercules, dressed in a short leather chiton and blue cape, hair styled in a little side swoop. He is grinning excitedly, holding up both fists as he says, awed, “I’m gonna be a vampire…” Nadja and Laszlo, dressed in pale red and pale green respectively, lean out from behind him. Nadja folds her hands on top of her husband’s head and rests her chin there with a sly grin, replying, “Yess, absolutely.” Laszlo wears a matching expression, posing his hands innocently under his chin. He adds, “You just have to do a few…” Nadja pipes up, “Quests!” Laszlo continues, “Yes, a few heroic quests for us, first!” 4b. In the background, Guillermo has his back to the viewer and is chopping madly at a vaguely yonic hedge with his xiphos sword, letting out a “ha!” of effort with each swing. In the foreground, Nadja and Laszlo are lounging and sipping from cups of blood. Laszlo calls over sternly, “No cutting corners, boy! I want a perfect likeness!” Nadja sits back lazily with her knees up and spread to provide a reference. /end ID

[bluejaysandblackbats]

have you ever considered jayrose or cassrose?

I'm not super big on jayrose, but I'd be open to writing cassrose at some point. I was supposed to write it in my Cass cowboy fic, but I got stuck and never touched on it again. Hopefully I'll get back to it soon.

[metroidspeedrun]

favorite fic you’ve written and a WIP you can’t wait to publish: go!

If There's Nothing Missing In My Life... is probably my personal favorite because it was inspired by a post that I desperately hope to see again someday about Conner being an exploited teen. Also I can't wait to finish it because I feel like my ending (I wrote the ending before the first chapter) is great and closes things off in a good place.

Blue Velvet is something that I've had a pinterest board for since like last January. It's a oneshot where Jay Garrick sets Max Crandall (Max Mercury) and Alan Scott up on a blind date. I'm so excited for that one actually.

Thanks so much for asking bestie!!!!

[judeswhore]

Imagining innocent bsf and u having strict parents so you and jude always have to sneak around nandi you typically only do stuff when ur home alone. But one day when ur meant to be studying u text him cuz ur feeling really needy and so he sneaks in ur window and obviously attends to ur needs while ur trying to stay silent. And at one point u accidentally make a noise or the headboard gets too loud or something and so ur parents come to ur door (which is locked thankfully) and are asking what’s going on and u expect jude to slow down or stop completely but he just keeps going even harder 😵‍💫😵‍💫 and so u have to do ur best to stay quiet while u answer ur parents

him sneaking into ur room bc he misses u and ur supposed to be studying but he’s such a distraction like he’s not even doing anything just him sitting in ur room is making it hard for u to concentrate. he’s telling u that you’ll find it easier to study if u let him fuck u first bc u need a little break and ofc u can never say no to him so before u know it he’s got u on ur back and he’s fucking u so good. his hand over ur mouth to keep u quiet and he’s in ur ear all “need to be a good girl and stay quiet, can’t have anyone knowing what i’m doing to u” but also “wish i could here ur pretty moans, baby, always makes me cum so hard when u start crying f’me” and it’s making u feral. but he’s being kinda soft and slow bc he’s trying not to make much noise but it’s driving u crazy so ur tugging his hand away just to whisper that “want it harder, jude. please, need u to fuck me properly” and it sounds so dirty coming from u and he can’t deny u so he’s doing what u ask but that makes the bed creek a little and has the headboard banging against the wall. and ur mam is home and she hears so she’s knocking on ur door and asking if ur okay but how r u supposed to answer when jude’s cock is so deep u can feel it in ur tummy?? thinking he’s gna stop but he just slows down until he’s just barely fucking u but he’s gripping ur chin to make sure u keep ur eyes on him and whispers “tell her ur fine, sweetheart” and ur stuttering out that everything’s okay and jude’s grinning all “that’s a good girl” and it’s so dirty and risky but so hot

[rebecca-quin]

A big and wonderful happy birthday to your baby 🥳 a special kiss for her from aunt Nandy 🥹✨

she loves you, i already told you that 🥰 i will show your message to her, she will love it 🥹🤧🩷

can’t believe she’s 4 already… wish time didn’t fly like that lol

a kiss for you from her mom and her favorite auntie!! 🥰🥰🥰

[mariacallous]

Oasis, the band everyone likes to sing after too many pints at karaoke, is going on tour. Well, not exactly on tour—it’s more like 17 dates in the UK and Ireland in summer 2025. Still, considering the band broke up in 2009 and has just reunited, this is what most people are calling a big deal. If nothing else, the band’s leaders, the notoriously ever-feuding brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher, might throttle each other on stage at any given moment, and hardcore fans (aka the “madferits”) would really hate to miss that, even if it costs them north of $1,000.

As soon as the presale for the band’s upcoming gigs went online on Friday, tickets—which started at around $100 apiece—popped up on resale sites, with fans on X reporting that they were seeing prices in the $800 to $1,200 range, despite the fact that the band said it had put guardrails in place to prevent the cost of the tickets from getting out of hand. The BBC reported that some tickets were going for as much as $7,800.

To be a part of the presale, fans had to submit a ballot correctly answering questions about the band. Some who did so received a link to presale tickets; others didn’t and were “devastated,” anticipating a “Ticketmaster bloodbath” during the general on-sale, despite the fact that Oasis themselves had warned that tickets sold for more than face value would be “canceled by the promoters.”

On Saturday, things didn’t get much better. Fans trying to buy tickets through online ticketing sites found long waits, seemingly hard-to-swallow fees, error messages, bots and, reportedly, error messages claiming that fans themselves were the bots.

“Efforts like presale ballots can be helpful in curbing the immediate rush and chaos typically associated with ticket sales,” says Benjamin Fabre, cofounder of cyberfraud firm DataDome, “but they are not foolproof solutions against sophisticated bot attacks.”

Not all of the inflated ticket prices were the result of bots, however. After waiting hours in the queue, some fans reached the front only to find the price of tickets had more than doubled. This was due to dynamic pricing, a model that means the prices of tickets can change if there’s high demand. As tickets started to sell out on Saturday, fans urged bands and artists to push back against the use of dynamic pricing. (Ticketmaster did not respond to an email over the weekend seeking comment for this story.)

The UK culture secretary Lisa Nandy on Monday confirmed that the British government will look into dynamic pricing as part of a planned review of how event tickets are sold, which is scheduled for the autumn. The review will investigate “issues around the transparency and use of dynamic pricing, including the technology around queuing systems which incentivise it,” Nandy told the BBC. MP Jamie Stone, the culture spokesperson for UK’s Liberal Democrats, said in a statement to The Guardian over the weekend that it was “scandalous to see our country’s biggest cultural moments turned into obscene cash cows by greedy promoters and ticketing websites.”

It seems all but inevitable this would happen. Whether it’s savvy scalpers trying to make a buck or bots—or, more likely, scalpers making bots—everything from Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour to the US Open seems to be getting hit with inflated resale prices almost instantly after tickets go on sale.

Bots, Fabre adds, can circumvent many guardrails, and “fraudsters can create thousands of fake accounts in advance of sales to become ‘Verified’ fans.” Bots impersonating common browsers like Chrome can slip past security checks and foil tools like CAPTCHAs, he says.

Regardless of what happens next, the Oasis debacle could shed another light on what fans go through to get concert tickets. Despite the fact that the US Congress passed the Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act in 2016 and the European Union voted to ban bots in 2019, they’ve been far from eradicated.

If they’re not, people may start taking matters into their own hands.

“If I don’t get Oasis tickets, I’m going to spend the next 12 months tweeting both brothers a list of every bad thing they’ve said about each other to encourage another fall-out,” one posted on X late last week. “If I don’t get to see it, no one else gets to see it either.”