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crunchetime · 2 years ago

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Some D&D oc's from my second set! (I made 3 sets of characters based on each of the 14 playable classes including Blood Hunter and Artificer so I now have 42 OCs in this roster total lmao)

Sammi Silvertongue [any pronouns]

Hill Dwarf Bard, College of Eloquence In any given town where revolution is brewing, you may hear the name "Silvertongue" spoken, and tales of a powerful family of dwarves who find themselves at the right place and the right time to foster change and fight any oppressor. Whether it be through actions or words, the Silvertongues have a penchant for toppling tyrants and destroying corrupt regimes from the inside out. The youngest of this line of upstarts, Sammi expresses their performative and inspirational talents through slam poetry, cooking up a rhythmic verbal cadence that carries the beat of the world around them. Sammi is incredibly observant, gathering information on their surroundings constantly. Often, it's simply to build up a vocabulary in case something calls for a quick stanza, but this methodical perception also keeps Sammi present and ever on the lookout for the next opportunity to make a difference. Sammi is a prodigious diplomat able to both soothe potential foes and rally hesitant allies, making them a much-sought-after public speaker for groups on both sides of the law.

Jarec V'nindu [he/him]

Githyanki Blood Hunter, Order of the Ghostslayer Jarec was a fresh face amongst the ranks of the Githyanki's interdimensional crusade, and he learned pretty quickly that his heart just wasn't in it. He chose to slip away from his post one day in the Shadowfell and ducked through a portal into the material plane, but it seems as though he may have brought something unsavory along with him. Whether it be through consequence or a seized opportunity, some otherworldly force snuck its way into Jarec's bloodstream and now periodically gives him glimpses into the space between the planes. Through this strange ability, Jarec has learned how to communicate with the dead and track souls that refuse to go gently into the beyond. He, however, isn't terribly interested in the quarrels of fading spirits. He's found another benefit of the curse; a current of powerful radiant energy runs through his veins, which he can harness to empower his abilities in combat. A born mercenary, Jarec is always on the search for loot, glory, and ways to sustain his lust for adventure. At least he's pointed in the right direction. For now.

Dakka Noregh [she/her] Kobold Artificer, Alchemist

Dakka used to be the servant of a tyrannical white dragon, until a band of adventurers slew it in its mountain lair. Ever the opportunist, Dakka groveled at their feet to spare her, and in exchange, she'd provide them her services as an alchemist. They agreed, and as it turns out, those adventurers ended up founding their own guild and regularly do business with Dakka! The only problem is that those particular adventurers aren't exactly the best people to be indebted to. For life. When Dakka couldn't split the price of renting a new alchemical shop with the cost of supplies needed for the guild's orders, she tried to bargain with the guild to cut her a break. As it turned out, however, they were already planning to replace her with a new alchemist without giving her any notice. She wasn't exactly happy about that, and may or may not have thrown a flask of acid directly onto the new alchemist's face. Now, with dozens of freelance murderers at her heels, Dakka frantically searches for kinder murderers to surround herself with, and to make some money on the side making potions. Her newest invention is a hair growth potion, which she tested on herself as you can see.

Harv Greymoor [he/him] Pallid Elf Druid, Circle of the Moon

Not much is known, nor can be said, about Harv Greymoor. He grew up unglamorously in high elven society, worked as a magic college's groundskeeper for a few hundred years, and retired early with a nest-egg that ran out WAY more quickly than he expected. In an effort to sustain a bohemian lifestyle, Harv now works security on wagon trains and airships. One could take a look at this spindly, scruffy, pale elf and assume him harmless, but as it turns out, this guy's been living out in the wilderness and getting so in tune with nature that he has a direct line to some kind of moon deity. So now I guess he can just kinda turn into animals and cast spells. He thinks it's neat. These abilities come in handy for his clients, which means it keeps ample food on the table for Harv. Which is good, because his appetite has grown significantly with his powers. I'm sure that's not indicative of anything foreboding.

Sybil [she/her] Ardling Ranger, Beast Master (revised)

(For those unaware, Ardlings are a new race/species included [or just revised? I'd never heard of them before now] in the OneDND playtest material. They're basically just a way for you to play your fursona. Sybil uses the Flyer subrace, since she's sort of a bat/owl chimera.)

Sybil has little recollection of where she came from. She simply appeared on an artificer's doorstep as a baby one night, half-blind and terribly injured. The artificer raised her and nursed her back to health, helping her retain the mobility and senses she otherwise would have lost from her injuries. With reinforced bones, improved sight, and a bit of telepathy to assist her speech, Sybil uses her augments to safeguard the forest surrounding her mentor's workshop. Occasionally, though, she likes to fly to nearby towns and socialize. Everybody likes Sybil. She's a good-natured prankster and leads a surprisingly tumultuous love life. The townspeople are all just thankful that the guns hidden inside her legs only come out for monsters.

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stackthedeck · 3 years ago

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106 and 109 for mattfoggy if you want (*﹏*;)

Anon love and light of my life thank you for this! This is an exercise in being conscious so the word count goal is under 2k yes! just barely

106. “I love you. You enormously stubborn pain in the ass.”

109. “That’s a little melodramatic, don’t you think?”

oof this turned out very angsty but idk what you expected actually looking back at the prompts this could have gone way fluffier

Matt’s been coming to the office less and less. They all have. There’s a new crime boss threatening to pollute and corrupt Daredevil’s city. Again. Karen has thrown herself into her investigative journalism. Again. And Foggy can’t stand to be alone in the office knowing that they’re both out there on the street trying to get themselves killed. Again.

Foggy sent a text to Matt this morning, just a simple “we need to talk, come to the office.” A part of him was worried Matt wasn’t going to show. He hated that any part of him could entertain the notion. Hated that Matt had proved that part right before.

But Matt did show right as Foggy was finished packing his things. Right as he tossed their sign into the trash. Matt frowns, not the heartbroken look Foggy was expecting, but the kind of look Foggy’s mom gives him when he gives his nieces and nephews candy before dinner.

Matt touches the wall where the sign used to be screwed on then cocks his head towards the trash. “That’s a little melodramatic, don’t you think?”

“Yeah, maybe.” Foggy shrugs, confident that Matt will get the gesture from the sound of the box rattling in his arms or how his muscles sound or however Matt senses anything. “But so are the horns on your fetish gear. We’re all entitled to a little melodrama.”

Matt grabs the sign out of the trash. “We’re not doing this again.”

“This is all we do. Crime happens in one of the biggest cities in the world and you get wrapped up in your one-man courtroom justice and Karen follows you on your little crusade that the courts or the police can’t possibly help you with, that I can’t possibly help you with. You blow off paperwork and court dates and depositions and there’s no one to keep everything organized and scheduled and suddenly I’m all alone in a law firm that can’t get clients even though we’re free. If we’re not going to act like a law firm why the fuck do we need a sign!”

“We need a sign because Karen and I are so close.” Matt shoves his way into the office, dropping the sign on Karen’s empty desk. He reaches for Foggy’s box of things but he clutches it to his chest as he steps away.

“We’re going to get all the evidence we need and you and I are going to step into court and put him behind bars. That is what we do!”

“I’m sick of this cycle,” Foggy groans, “what happened to helping the little guy? When was the last time you heard a rent dispute case or a domestic battery case? You are not helping the little guy, Matt, you are fighting the big guys and that’s not the same thing.”

“I’m cleaning up this city,” Matt says, cool and calm despite the white knuckle grip he has on his cane, the way Foggy can practically hear his teeth grinding. He would make a great lawyer.

“And I’m making it a better place and I would like some help.”

“I know.” Matt slumps against the desk, hand rubbing over the bridge of his nose. “I’m sorry Foggy, I’m tired and I just need rest and that’s not an excuse, you’re right I should be here too.”

“No, no, no.” Foggy puts down his box only to step closer to Matt and think about touching him. “I am not letting you come in here with broken ribs and a split lip running off an hour of sleep, that’s not going to help anyone.”

“Do you want me to come in or not?”

“I want you to take care of yourself, asshole!” Foggy looks at Matt, his glasses slipping lower down his nose, and he can see a black eye and nasty bruise on his cheek. “I want you to get a full eight hours of sleep.”

“You know I can’t do that and you know exactly why.”

“Yeah, I do,” Foggy huffs, “ and I don’t want you going out at night with broken ribs and an hour of sleep, you are going to get yourself killed!”

“I won’t stop being Daredevil, people need me, my city—”

“I’m not asking you to choose between Daredevil and the law firm.” Foggy reaches for the sign, but Matt pulls it behind his back before he can grab it. They’re not wrestling for it, they’re not five. And Matt would win. “Hence the sign. I want you to be Daredevil to the best of your abilities and if that means becoming nocturnal, I won’t stop you.”

“Foggy, I need this law firm, I need you here,” Matt sighs, “Am I not the one-man courtroom you think I am. I don’t make my own justice, I bring them to justice. I need you and Karen and the law.”

“You need to sleep and seek medical attention.” Foggy rolls his eyes. “I just rolled my eyes by the way.” Even when he’s mad, he still has the knee-jerk reaction to help Matt even when he knows he doesn’t need it. He could be a dick, let his anger roll out of him, and have Matt be none the wiser but goddamn it, he does not want to hurt Matt, never.

“Every case that I have worked on, all the evidence I bring you and the police has been perfect. I am not slipping.” That’s what people who are slipping say. “Why do you care if I’m sleeping at night, it doesn’t affect you? I never let it affect anyone but me and that will not change.”

“Why do I care about you?” Foggy scoffs. “Because I love you. You enormously stubborn pain in the ass. So you are going to let me dissolve our practice until you can get it together.”

“You love me?” Suddenly everything in Matt softens like a puppet whose strings have been cut and all the tension gives way to nothing. He looks so tired as his mouth struggles to form words.

“Obviously,” Foggy sighs, “that’s not the important part, the important part is you getting your life in order.”

“I love you too.”

“If you did, you wouldn’t make me fear for your life every night.”

“I’m not putting away the suit.”

“I’m not making you wake up at six in the morning for court when you sleep at five.”

“Foggy, I was serious when I said I need you.” Matt steps forward and suddenly they’re chest to chest. “I need us, I need this law firm.”

“You need—”

“I need something to come back to.” Matt takes Foggy’s cheek in his hand and Foggy doesn’t lean into it because he’s fucking furious goddamn it. But he doesn’t pull away either. “Knowing that I have a life outside the suit, something to come home to, it keeps me from being reckless.”

“Daredevil isn’t reckless? I rolled my eyes again.”

“I know I sound ridiculous, I know I’m asking too much.” Matt rubs his thumb over Foggy’s cheek and despite himself, he leans into the touch, into the rough callous of his fingertips. Matt smiles, his breath catching. “But please, let me come home to you.”

“Just promise me you’ll come home.”

“If it’s to you?” Matt leans in and kisses him. Foggy shouldn’t kiss back because this was supposed to be a breakup, an intervention. But Matt’s lips are soft and he can barely taste iron from his split lip and touching him means that he’s here and not out bleeding in the street.

“Always. It’s what we do.”

#asks #my fanfic #fanfic #matt murdock #foggy nelson #mattfoggy #matt x foggy #daredevil #y'all can still send prompts if you want #i've had some ass writers block recently and this is helping #doesn't have to be this prompt list #go wild get silly with it

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generic-hufflepuff1 · 4 years ago

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My Tma favorites (per entity per season)

In honor of the finale of Tma, I'm looking back and going through the seasons and picking out my favorite episodes. I'm sorting them by entity and Im gonna write a little piece at the end of each fear as to why I picked that episode. It is relatively spoiler free but still keep your wits about you.

Also this is only up to Mag 197

The Stranger

Season 1: 1 Anglerfish tied with 34 Anatomy Class

Season 2: 77 The Kind Mother

Season 3: 83 Drawing a Blank, with 96 Return to Sender as a close second

Season 4: 128 heavy Goods

Season 5: 182 Well being, but 165 Revolutions is very very good

Overall: 1 Anglerfish

So all the of The Strangers’ episodes are really evocative and well written and I have to say that it was a very, very close call for almost every single season and I still cannot really decide if I truly like Mag 1 more than Mag 34 but I have to say that Mag 1 is so very good at drawing you into the world and works as a stand alone piece.

The Buried

Season 1: 2 Do Not Open

Season 2: 66 Held In Customs

Season 3: 97 We all Ignore the Pit

Season 4: 132 Entombed

Season 5: 184 Like Ants

Overall: 2 Do Not Open

I love Mag 2 as the protagonist straight up did not have any of this bullshit. And they even got a mike drop moment with the frozen key. Like in this house we stan Joshua Gillespie. His determination to not have to deal with that shit is so incredibly strong that it sticks with you.

The Web

Season 1: 16 Aracnopobia

Season 2: 69 Thought for the Day

Season 3: 81 A Guest for Mister Spider

Season 4: 136 The Puppeteer

Season 5: 172 Strung Out

Overall: 81 A Guest for Mister Spider

Honestly Mag 81 is absolutely brilliant and serves to contextualise so much of season 1 and 2 and ends up being incredibly important to the world as a whole. That plus the delivery and excellent premise gives it a slight edge over Mag 172 that is a pure exploration of the controlling and manipulative nature of addiction

The Vast

Season 1: 21 Freefall

Season 2: 75 A Long Way Down

Season 3: 91 The Coming Storm

Season 4: 124 Left Hanging

Season 5: 174 The Great Beast

Overall: 174 The Great Beast

So the first half of season 5 does an amazing job of truely fleshing out each fear and the Vast is no exception. The split between the two protagonists makes it clear that The Vast is not just about big things or empty space but deep existentialism and the fear of the inevitability of life.

The Spiral

Season 1: 26 A Distortion

Season 2: 74 Fatigue

Season 3: 85 Upon the Stair

Season 4: 126 Sculptors Tool

Season 5: 177 Wonderland, tied with 187 Checking Out

Overall: 187 Checking Out

This one was difficult as Mag 177 and Mag 187 as both of them lingered in my head for literal weeks after listening to them. In the end Mag 187 was so completely mind boggling in how it completely changed my perception of the Distortion. And is a masterclass in writing a character twist.

The End

Season 1: 29 Cheating Death

Season 2: 70 Book of the Dead

Season 3: 94 Dead Woman Walking

Season 4: 155 The Cost of Living

Season 5: 168 Roots

Overall: 168 Roots

I have quite literally experienced some version of what the victims are describing. But more than that the realisation of the implications of this domain for the world as it elevates the episode much higher than any of the Ends other appearances as eventually the other entities will fear the End just as the mortals do.

The Flesh

Season 1: 14 Piecemeal

Season 2: 58 Trail Rations

Season 3: 90 Body Builder

Season 4: 131 Flesh

Season 5: 171 The Gardener

Overall: 171 The Gardener

Everything about Mag 171 just speaks to me. From the visual it conjures, to the brilliant use of botany metaphor to describe various body image issues, to Jared’s simple but weighty request. This episode lives rent free in my brain at all times. This is the first time that I have zero contenders for my favorite of an entity.

The Corruption

Season 1: 32 Hive

Season 2: 68 The Tale of a Field Hospital

Season 3: 102 Nesting Instinct

Season 4: 153 Love Bombing

Season 5: 164 The Sick Village

Overall: 32 Hive

Although Mag 164 does have a very particular place in my heart and in the history of literature due to its topic and the precise time it came out, but it does pale compared to just how brilliant Mag 32 is. As the first real mention of the entities it reveals just little enough to keep the suspense whilst providing just enough answers that it's obvious in hindsight. But once more none of that matters in the face of “There is a wasps nest in my attic” the shere delivery of this episode has placed it in many people's favourite lists.

The Slaughter

Season 1: 7 The Piper

Season 2: 42 Grifter’s Bone

Season 3: 105 Total War

Season 4: 125 Civilian Casualties

Season 5: 163 In the Trenches

Overall: 42 Grifter’s Bone

Mag 42 is very interesting. I’ve mentioned in some of my other posts that Im pretty sure that Jonny Sims finds some fears harder to write and the Slaughter is definitely one of them but I’ve only come to this conclusion by looking at how frequently they show up but listening to the show you would never be able to tell and Mag 42 is one brilliant example of this it is a brilliant way to expand on how the Slaughter manifests.

The Desolation

Season 1: 37 Burnt Offering

Season 2: 67 Burning Desire

Season 3: 89 Twice as Bright

Season 4: 139 Chosen

Season 5: 169 Fire Escape

Overall: 67 Burning Desire

I find Mag 67 so intensely interesting as it leads into one of the major themes of Tma, that love can and will defeat and overpower even the most gripping fear. The simple love of a simple man sowed just enough doubt to destroy an avatar of destruction. Tma is filled with similar moments but personally this one is my favourite.

The Dark

Season 1: 25 Growing Dark

Season 2: 63 The End of the Tunnel

Season 3: 86 Tucked In

Season 4: 143 The Heart of Darkness

Season 5: 173 Night Night

Overall: 173 Night Night

I remember the reaction to Mag 173. It was so incredibly powerful to watch most of the fanbase (myself included) react in exactly the same way the characters did to the reality of this domain. First with dawning realisation, then anger followed sudden confusion at where to direct that anger. It was quite eye opening to say the least.

The Hunt

Season 1: 10 Vampire Killer, with notable mention to 31 First Hunt

Season 2: 56 Children of the Night

Season 3: 112 Thrill of the Chase

Season 4: 133 Dead Horse

Season 5: 176 Blood Ties

Overall: 112 Thrill of the Chase

I absolutely love Mag 112. It is such a brilliant idea, and as a result I end up valuing it a bit more than Mag 133 or 10 which are particularly telling for me as it proves that the Hunt is weirdly the fairest of the entities and absolutely condones fighting back and even killing its avatars or that it just cares about the circular nature of the hunt.

The Eye

Season 1: 23 Schwartzwald

Season 2: 53 Crusader

Season 3: 82 The Eyewitnesses

Season 4: 138 The Architecture of Fear

Season 5: 183 The Monument

Overall: 138 The Architecture of Fear

Oh Smirke. Poor naive and enlightened Smirke. I love Mag 138 more than the other Eye related episodes because it is due to this character that we even have a metric through which to observe the world of tma

The Lonely

Season 1: 33 Boatswain’s Call

Season 2: 48 lost in the Crowd

Season 3: 92 Nothing Besides Remains

Season 4: 159 The Last

Season 5: 170 Recollection

Overall: 170 Recollection

Covid lockdown hit me quite hard and I have not seen a single piece of media that captures the feeling of having hours and days drift into each other quite like Mag 170 so along with Mag 164 it has a very strange place in my heart.

The Extinction

So this one is a bit of a different situation so im gonna simply list my top five in order

175 Epoch

149 Concrete Jungle

65 Binary

157 Rotten Core

156 Reflection

Mag 175 is another example of a statement that my mind will drift to if I leave it alone for too long. From the vivid visuals to the subtext of the descriptions to the delivery of every line it is easily one of the best episodes of Tma in my personal opinion.

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reversecreek · 4 years ago

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MEET THE NPCS...

BOBBY YANG, “BIG BOB” .

1. how old are they and what do they look like?

thirty-four. implausibly tall. the day magda first saw a sketch of slenderman she thought of him. when her aunt shelly pulled up the dirt road to abernathy creek magda remembers seeing him through a dusty back window with his head bowed to avoid getting tree leaves in his eyes, joint between his lips, dungarees dirty and half unbuckled. one side of his hair is buzzed with no apparent style intention and he has a weed leaf tattooed behind his left ear. an elephant on his thigh. a name on his ankle he often wears a plaster over. once it soaked through and fell off in the creek and, newly glossy in the sun, nine year old magda reached to give it a blunt and shameless prod. big bob never explained who the name belonged to, he only reached to thumb at the minari growing by the water bed and talk about the fact it was a "versatile little sucker”.

2. if applicable, where and when did they meet your muse?

big bob introduced himself as such and magda raised her eyebrow in disbelief, the soul of a disgruntled pensioner in a seven yr old’s body. magda didn’t rly talk to anyone when she first arrived in her new home, verging on mute. she was angry at the move, angry that her dad hadn’t called her when she got there, angry that she didn’t know her mother’s voice to imagine it telling her everything was okay. the world made her so angry she didn’t want to acknowledge it. she sat outside in silence for a long time letting a ladybug crawl over her hand, and big bob didn’t ask anything of her, he only schlepped closer and presented her with a buttercup. she looked at it like it’d spat in her face but took it nonetheless. it was strange having an actual bed, if you could call a bare mattress that, used to sleeping on the sofa in shelly’s old trailer, and the springs nipped at her like a dog demanding treats, so she wandered outside in one of shelly’s big tie dye shirts like a nightdress, searching for the moon. big bob was standing out there already in the overgrown grass, stark naked, chin lifted to gawk at the moon himself. magda didn’t disturb him. this is when she first discovered his habit of naked sleepwalking. abernathy creek felt like a bird house overrun with all kinds of eccentric, squawking parakeets. it was a lot for a seven yr old to take in. this was a strange reality she’d never signed up for, swallowed by the commune to overheat inside it’s belly.

3. what kind of a presence do they have in your muse’s life? do they have a positive or negative relationship?

bob’s definitely a character. three times now he’s slipped hallucinogens into magda’s tea without her knowing under the impression that this is just harmless fun and he’s actually helping her by pushing her little boat to bob along the ocean of enlightenment, once at as young as 16. every time she realises he’s like “y’just got bobbeddddd!” and magda’s like here we go ig. told her the raw earth has healing properties to explain why he’d dug up the grass just to rub his hands in the soil and lay there like a panting, overheated dog. he’s an important component to abernathy creek and oversees a lot of the agriculture there. rigged up the irrigation system himself using copper pipes that magda suspects were stolen. the beat up camper van that’s usually parked up behind abernathy and hidden under leafy branches appeared when he did, apparently, although he insists it belongs to everyone. he leads the crusades to drive it up to the mountains and take a group of abernathy creek residents shroom picking. he’s in charge of drying them for selling, too. jack of all trades, really. magda claims not to care for him (or anyone) but she still walked out onto the grass, took his hand and lead him inside whenever she found him sleepwalking at night in her teens. once a group of kids were daring each other to get closer when he was out there and magda threw a stone so hard at one of their shin’s it split it open and made them scatter. but again, magda “does not care about him”. the jury is not convinced.

4. are they revered in irving? do they have bad blood with anyone?

honestly everyone in irving probably thinks he’s a rly strange guy and i won’t fk around. he kind of is. wears many necklaces around his neck n one is just a pouch that has a prehistoric mosquito encased in a little piece of amber inside. sometimes magda wonders if he likes to play up to his reputation by putting it on a little bit. once she saw him suddenly jerking his head like a pecking chicken and saying “g’warn GET” to scare a random middle aged hiker into galloping in the opposite direction in the trees near abernathy. has a masterful knowledge of bird songs and can imitate them all impeccably. sometimes does this instead of replying with words. never cares about the holes in his shoes where his toes poke out. always seems to be turning a rusty coin between his fingers like it helps him think. he makes moonshine that will knock u off ur feet tho which is always a good time if ur lucky enough to try it. he has a very rich n warm voice like a log fire or a gooey chocolate brownie. even with all of his oddities he sounds kind. he’s very unconventional n doesn’t abide by rules of society a lot but he’s quite funny n a good time. makes engaging smalltalk if u treat him with respect. weird but admittedly a tiny bit wonderful.

OTIS WOLFE.

1. how old are they and what do they look like?

forty-six but he looks older. the skin beneath his eyes is subtly purpled like it’s been dyed by a lick of beetroot juice. he has a very charismatic walk which doesn’t sound like it makes sense but it does to look at him. he walks everywhere buoyantly and with purpose. very high energy in his good days. lives everything in large quantities, good and bad. always used to wear a tan leather bomber jacket when magda was growing up but he forgot it w her one visit n it’s the only time she’s known him to call up two days after leaving to ask if she’d seen it. magda lied and said she hadn’t. she still has it to this day. sleeps in it on her bad days. otis has a smile so big it shines like live wires are sparking in his mouth. magda’s fingertips prickle like she’s an hour recovering from shoving a fork into a plug socket whenever she sees it. she used to think that’s what excitement felt like. that used to be true.

2. what kind of a presence do they have in your muse’s life? do they have a positive or negative relationship?

it’s very complicated. magda knows her dad isn’t a good person but she knows he isn’t a bad person either. sometimes it’s more frustrating to see things in grey because you just want something solid to take shape that u can actually put ur finger on. she finds herself perpetually stood at a fork in the road between believing in him still and deciding he’s no good. sometimes she’ll start walking in one direction only to realise it loops back on itself and she’s right back where she started. otis has given her a lot of fun “adventures”. taught her how to juggle. they stayed in a hotel on someone else’s credit card once and racked up a gargantuan tab ordering every form of room service and renting godzilla and the matrix on pay per view when she was 11. sometimes he’d use her in gimmicks where she had to lie and pretend she had a health condition so they could get a few bucks off charitable strangers on a street corner and under the veil of youth magda found playing up these roles funny because who would ever believe that? wasn’t everyone in the world so stupid except them? it was nice being part of his team. his “little wolfie”. but then a lot of things weren’t nice either. he’s left her stranded on the side of the road with nowhere to go on more than one occasion. he’s passed out in motel corridors and she’s had to lug him into a bed. he’s forgotten almost every birthday apart from one where he sent a card with five dollars inside and handwriting so squiggly she could tell he was drunk when he wrote it. he doesn’t know she likes to sing because he’s only ever listened when he’s fallen asleep. otis is all of magda’s heart and that’s why sometimes she likes to forget that it’s beating.

3. are they revered in irving? do they have bad blood with anyone?

he’s very flighty n rarely in irving any more tbh but was more when magda was younger n his visits were a little less sporadic. probably owes a bunch of people money for some reason or another. smashed up fannie’s recently when he turned up drunk and got ahead of himself on a giddy n frenzied rampage in the name of “fun” n “just having a laugh”. magda’s aunt shelly really doesn’t get on with her brother n thinks he’s a complete deadbeat waste of space n resents him a lot for the impact he’s had on magda. magda remembers being little and peeking through a crack in shelly’s trailer door when he turned up drunk one time to collect her for a visit n shelly wouldn’t let him in. something along the lines of “you don’t give a rat’s ass about that little girl” and “she worships you, y’know that? most of the time, you don’t even remember her name”. magda crept back onto the sofa and pretended to be asleep by the time she came inside.

4. if your muse is no longer in contact with them, how did the relationship end? did your muse get closure over this?

magda slowly stopped trying to keep in contact over the years. it got embarrassing trying so hard when she didn’t get much back. like pushing a boulder all the way up a hill only to watch it roll back down again. it’s probably contributed a lot towards magda’s inability to really try with people like she should, especially when her heart’s involved. she doesn’t want to be humiliated again. magda hasn’t spoken to her dad in person in almost a year. they had a phone call about seven months back but it turned out to be a butt dial and he hung up because he was in the middle of a conversation at some bar about the moon landing conspiracy. magda’s playlist that i have for her is called “a rodeo clown in a revolving door” which is basically the role otis serves in magda’s life. always in and out. never constant. gone more than he’s there, especially lately. idk if magda will ever get closure over that. she certainly hasn’t now. pouts my fuckable lips to the side w a hand on hip and triple f’s prominent.

#irvingtask002 #magda | muse #drugs tw #alcoholism tw #i said i was gna do hunter too but i simply just dnt have the energy i wont lie. so big bob n otis are all i have to present...... holds ban #omg. bang.#mayb i do more editions of this task for magda in future bc #i have hunter n shelly tht i wna write up....

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statetalks · 4 years ago

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Were Democrats Or Republicans For Slavery

Presidency Of Martin Van Buren

Democrats Responsible for Slavery, Republican Party for Abolition.mp4

The Presidency of Martin Van Buren was hobbled by a long economic depression called the Panic of 1837. The presidency promoted hard money based on gold and silver, an independent federal treasury, a reduced role for the government in the economy, and a liberal policy for the sale of public lands to encourage settlement; they opposed high tariffs to encourage industry. The Jackson policies were kept, such as Indian removal and the Trail of Tears. Van Buren personally disliked slavery but he kept the slaveholder’s rights intact. Nevertheless, he was distrusted across the South.

The 1840 Democratic convention was the first at which the party adopted a platform. Delegates reaffirmed their belief that the Constitution was the primary guide for each state’s political affairs. To them, this meant that all roles of the federal government not specifically defined fell to each respective state government, including such responsibilities as debt created by local projects. Decentralized power and states’ rights pervaded each and every resolution adopted at the convention, including those on slavery, taxes, and the possibility of a central bank. Regarding slavery, the Convention adopted the following resolution:

What Happened In 1969

The war in Vietnam came to a head. The democrats under Kennedy had gotten us into the war and then after Kennedy was killed President Johnson continued and grew our presence in Vietnam.

Peoples opposition to the war became the focus of the democrat party and the emotional democrats became the protagonists for eliminating the policies that kept blacks in the back of the bus as well as free love and marijuana.

I was young at the time and this is the Democratic Party i remember which were opposed to real things. There was a war in vietnam. People were dying. There was segregation.

Republicans didnt resist outlawing segregation. The resistance was focused on the remaining segregationists in the Democratic Party. Strom Thurmond a democrat from the south fillibustered the passage of the civil rights act.

In 1968 the democrats held a national convention. This convention devolved into riots and was the watershed for racism and the Democratic Party. The racists were ejected from the Democratic Party ostensibly.

Democrats today claim that in 1969 what happened is that the racists in the Democratic Party moved to the Republican Party.

There is no evidence of this. Storm Thurmond, Robert Byrd never switched parties. Robert Byrd a former KKK leader stayed a democrat until he retired from the senate in 2010. Biden called Byrd a mentor.

Biden was one of the most outspoken opponents of busing.

None of that is true.

If you arent a democrat then they dont want you in the identity group.

After The Civil War Democrats Continued To Fight Against Equality For Blacks

For 100 years the democrats staged a rear guard action seeking to keep blacks subservient and doing their bidding.

They passed laws to limit black peoples ability to vote, to sit on the front of the bus, to own land, to rent apartments, to go to the same schools and many other things.

If anyone owes black people reparations it is these democrats.

Given this history of democrats it is stunning that the Democratic Party continues to exist. Shouldnt it be disbanded? We are tearing down statues, removing names of historically racist people and institutions so why not destroy the Democratic Party? It is slavery and was the principal advocate of slavery. They also were heavily involved in passing racist laws, hanging blacks and many republicans who opposed the democrats.

Why would anyone want to be part of a party that was historically so critical and central to the whole effort to enslave and repress blacks?

People have a tendency not to be partisan and to label this as white Americans that did this but it was the Democrats. Republicans were the ones fighting it. If not for those republicans the black people in America would never have been freed or gotten voting rights or many other things that had to be fought. Many white republicans were killed by democrats even after the end of the civil war who were called sympathizers.

Again, why doesnt this basic fact that is indisputable matter?

Those blacks who could vote between 1860 and 1969 voted for republicans.

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Political Firsts For Women And Minorities

From its inception in 1854 to 1964, when Senate Republicans pushed hard for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against a filibuster by Senate Democrats, the GOP had a reputation for supporting blacks and minorities. In 1869, the Republican-controlled legislature in Wyoming Territory and its Republican governor John Allen Campbell made it the first jurisdiction to grant voting rights to women. In 1875, California swore in the first Hispanic governor, Republican Romualdo Pacheco. In 1916, Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman in Congressand indeed the first woman in any high level government position. In 1928, New Mexico elected the first Hispanic U.S. Senator, Republican . In 1898, the first Jewish U.S. Senator elected from outside of the former Confederacy was Republican Joseph Simon of Oregon. In 1924, the first Jewish woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives was Republican Florence Kahn of California. In 1928, the Republican U.S. Senate Majority Leader, Charles Curtis of Kansas, who grew up on the Kaw Indian reservation, became the first person of significant non-European ancestry to be elected to national office, as Vice President of the United States for Herbert Hoover.

A New Political Party

After passing all these pro-slavery laws, in May 1854, a number of anti-slavery members in Congress formed a new political party to fight slavery. These anti-slavery members were from the Whigs, Free Soil advocates and Emancipationists. They wanted to gain equal rights for black Americans.

The name of that party? They called it the Republican Party. They chose this name because they wanted to return to the principles of freedom and equality. These are the principles first put forth in the documents of the republic before the pro-slavery Congressional members had misused and manipulated to their own purposes those original principles.

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The New Deal Era: 19321939

After Roosevelt took office in 1933, New Deal legislation sailed through Congress at lightning speed. In the 1934 midterm elections, ten Republican senators went down to defeat, leaving them with only 25 against 71 Democrats. The House of Representatives was also split in a similar ratio. The “Second New Deal” was heavily criticized by the Republicans in Congress, who likened it to class warfare and socialism. The volume of legislation, as well as the inability of the Republicans to block it, soon made the opposition to Roosevelt develop into bitterness and sometimes hatred for “that man in the White House. Former President Hoover became a leading orator crusading against the New Deal, hoping unrealistically to be nominated again for president.

Most major newspaper publishers favored Republican moderate Alf Landon for president. In the nation’s 15 largest cities the newspapers that editorially endorsed Landon represented 70% of the circulation. Roosevelt won 69% of the actual voters in those cities by ignoring the press and using the radio to reach voters directly.

Roosevelt carried 46 of the 48 states thanks to traditional Democrats along with newly energized labor unions, city machines and the Works Progress Administration. The realignment creating the Fifth Party System was firmly in place. Since 1928, the GOP had lost 178 House seats, 40 Senate seats and 19 governorships, though it retained a mere 89 seats in the House and 16 in the Senate.

Southernization; Oh That Sounds Fun Wait It Isnt

From the 1960s to the 2000s a southernization of the Republican party occurs. Paired with Goldwater and;Hoover states rights conservatism and along;with old Anti-Communist ideology, it was enough to completely change the political parties.

From the late 1800s to the 2000s Republican progressives moved toward the Democratic Party and Southern Conservatives moved toward the Republican party. See;the New Deal Coalition and Conservative Coalition.

The grand result is that the David Dukes of the world today fly the Confederate Battle flag and vote Republican.

This story;is a major reason why the voter map looks the way it does.

Meanwhile, while we can still see Gores and Clintons, and sometimes even a Byrd, in the modern Democratic party, those Redeemer and Redeemed liberals made a conscious choice to ally with the dominate Progressive and Neoliberal factions in this cycle.

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What Does Republican Mean

The word republicanmeans of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic. Similarly to the word democratic, the word republican also describes things that resemble or involve a particular form of government, in this case the government in question is a republic. A republic is a government system in which power rests with voting citizens who directly or indirectly choose representatives to exercise political power on their behalf.;

You may have noticed that a republic sounds a lot like a democracy. As it happens, most of the present-day democracies are also republics. However, not every republic is democratic and not every democratic country is a republic.

For example, the historical city-state of Venice had a leader known as a doge who was elected by voters. In the case of Venice, though, the voters were a small council of wealthy traders, and the doge held his position for life. Venice and other similar mercantile city-states had republican governments, but as you can see, they were definitely not democratic. At the same time, the United Kingdom is a democratic country that has a monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, and so it is not a republican country because it is not officially a republic.;

Slavery And The Emergence Of The Bipartisan System

Civil Rights and Slavery – Republican and Democrat Parties – Prager University

From 1828 to 1856 the Democrats won all but two presidential elections . During the 1840s and 50s, however, the Democratic Party, as it officially named itself in 1844, suffered serious internal strains over the issue of extending slavery to the Western territories. Southern Democrats, led by Jefferson Davis, wanted to allow slavery in all the territories, while Northern Democrats, led by Stephen A. Douglas, proposed that each territory should decide the question for itself through referendum. The issue split the Democrats at their 1860 presidential convention, where Southern Democrats nominated John C. Breckinridge and Northern Democrats nominated Douglas. The 1860 election also included John Bell, the nominee of the Constitutional Union Party, and Abraham Lincoln, the candidate of the newly established antislavery Republican Party . With the Democrats hopelessly split, Lincoln was elected president with only about 40 percent of the national vote; in contrast, Douglas and Breckinridge won 29 percent and 18 percent of the vote, respectively.

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On This Day The Republican Party Names Its First Candidates

On July 6, 1854, disgruntled voters in a new political party named its first candidates to contest the Democrats over the issue of slavery. Within six and one-half years, the newly christened Republican Party would control the White House and Congress as the Civil War began.

For a brief time in the decade before the Civil War, the Democratic Party of Andrew Jackson and his descendants enjoyed a period of one-party rule. The Democrats had battled the Whigs for power since 1836 and lost the presidency in 1848 to the Whig candidate, Zachary Taylor. After Taylor died in office in 1850, it took only a few short years for the Whig Party to collapse dramatically.

There are at least three dates recognized in the formation of the Republican Party in 1854, built from the ruins of the Whigs. The first is February 24, 1854, when a small group met in Ripon, Wisconsin, to discuss its opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The group called themselves Republicans in reference to Thomas Jeffersons Republican faction in the American republics early days. Another meeting was held on March 20, 1854, also in Ripon, where 53 people formally recognized the movement within Wisconsin.

On July 6, 1854, a much-bigger meeting in Jackson, Michigan was attended by about 10,000 people and is considered by many as the official start of the organized Republican Party. By the end of the gathering, the Republicans had compiled a full slate of candidates to run in Michigans elections.

Culture Conflict And Al Smith

At the 1924 Democratic National Convention, a resolution denouncing the Ku Klux Klan was introduced by Catholic and liberal forces allied with Al Smith and Oscar W. Underwood in order to embarrass the front-runner, William Gibbs McAdoo. After much debate, the resolution failed by a single vote. The KKK faded away soon after, but the deep split in the party over cultural issues, especially prohibition, facilitated Republican landslides in 1924 and 1928. However, Al Smith did build a strong Catholic base in the big cities in 1928 and Franklin D. Roosevelt‘s election as Governor of New York that year brought a new leader to center stage.

the myth of the Democratic Party masterfully re-created, a fresh awareness of the elemental differences between the parties, and ideology with which they might make sense of the two often senseless conflicts of the present, and a feeling for the importance of dynamic leadership. The book was a mirror for Democrats.

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Presidency Of Andrew Jackson

The spirit of Jacksonian democracy animated the party from the early 1830s to the 1850s, shaping the Second Party System, with the Whig Party as the main opposition. After the disappearance of the Federalists after 1815 and the Era of Good Feelings , there was a hiatus of weakly organized personal factions until about 18281832, when the modern Democratic Party emerged along with its rival, the Whigs. The new Democratic Party became a coalition of farmers, city-dwelling laborers and Irish Catholics. Both parties worked hard to build grassroots organizations and maximize the turnout of voters, which often reached 80 percent or 90 percent of eligible voters. Both parties used patronage extensively to finance their operations, which included emerging big city political machines as well as national networks of newspapers.

Behind the party platforms, acceptance speeches of candidates, editorials, pamphlets and stump speeches, there was a widespread consensus of political values among Democrats. As Mary Beth Norton explains:

The party was weakest in New England, but strong everywhere else and won most national elections thanks to strength in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and the American frontier. Democrats opposed elites and aristocrats, the Bank of the United States and the whiggish modernizing programs that would build up industry at the expense of the yeoman or independent small farmer.

Why It Doesnt Make Sense To Equate Modern Democrats With The Old Southern Democrats

The Democrats, formally the;anti-Federalists,;had an;aversion to aristocracy from the late 1700s to the progressive era.

That truism;led to the southern conservatives of the solid south like;John C. Calhoun and small government liberals like Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van Buren allying;in the same party;for most of U.S. history.

However,;that changed;after Civil Rights under LBJ and the rise of Goldwater States Rights Republicans .

Today the solid south, and figures like Jeff Sessions, are in an alliance in the big tent of the Republican Party . This was as much a response to the growing progressiveness of the Democratic Party as anything.

One simple way to confirm this is to look at the factions of;Lincolns time. There were four. They;were:

The Northern liberal Whig/Republicans, The;Nativist Know-Nothing; allies of the Whig/Republicans, The Southern Democrats and their Northern allies , and The;Free Soil;;allies of the Democrats who;took a libertarian like position.

Todays Democrats are more like socially liberal Whig/Republicans , libertarians are like Free Soilers , Trumpians are like Nativist Know-Nothings , and Southern Democrats are like the modern Southern conservative Republicans.

The current parties are thus:

Social Liberals and Neoliberals vs. Social Conservatives and Neoliberal Conservatives AKA Neocons .

Clearly, the country has never been fully polarized, even at its most polarized.

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The Second Bush Era: 20002008

George W. Bush, son of George H. W. Bush, won the 2000 Republican presidential nomination over Arizona Senator John McCain, former Senator Elizabeth Dole and others. With his highly controversial and exceedingly narrow victory in the 2000 election against the Vice President Al Gore, the Republican Party gained control of the Presidency and both houses of Congress for the first time since 1952. However, it lost control of the Senate when Vermont Senator James Jeffords left the Republican Party to become an independent in 2001 and caucused with the Democrats.

In the wake of the on the United States in 2001, Bush gained widespread political support as he pursued the War on Terrorism that included the invasion of Afghanistan and the invasion of Iraq. In March 2003, Bush ordered for an invasion of Iraq because of breakdown of United Nations sanctions and intelligence indicating programs to rebuild or develop new weapons of mass destruction. Bush had near-unanimous Republican support in Congress plus support from many Democratic leaders.

Bush failed to win conservative approval for Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, replacing her with Samuel Alito, whom the Senate confirmed in January 2006. Bush and McCain secured additional tax cuts and blocked moves to raise taxes. Through 2006, they strongly defended his policy in Iraq, saying the Coalition was winning. They secured the renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act.

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revisitedgrunt · 6 years ago

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Harley and Ivy.

A new fans thoughts on this relationship and the Harley Quinn comic: Part 2 of 4.

At the end of the 2013 – 2016 Harley Quinn comic run, Harley promises Ivy she'll take her to a spa. Harley keeps her promises and page 1, issue 1 of the current run gives us this.

And just in case we'd forgotten how hot Harley is for Ivy, the fourth panel, on the first page of issue 1, has Harley trying to have sex with Ivy.

I love Amanda and Jimmy. I’m pretty sure this is the first time Harley tells Ivy she loves her. She repeats in again when Ivy leaves and Ivy confirms she feels the same.

While they're at the spa, Harley asks Ivy to move in with her. The first thing she uses as enticement is she has a “big bed”. Room mates, usually, don't share a bed. The moving in subplot becomes very important in a few issues and I'll speak about it later.

Going into the current run, I thought there wouldn't be as much Harley/Ivy content as there was in the first run. You can imagine how happy I was seeing this relationship front and centre in the very first issue. It was my mistake not having faith in Amanda and Jimmy. Their issues in the current run contain some of the most important Harley/Ivy scenes in the canon continuity.

Issue 2 has Ivy being awesome and saving Harley, and friends, from a hoard of zombies.

Issue 3 has an absolute plethora of Harley/Ivy scenes. We start with Harley and Ivy in the shower, washing each other.

At this point it's well established that these two are attracted to each other, this scene is just more proof, if anyone really needed it. Having said that, it does make me happy seeing Harley and Ivy in a scene with this degree of intimacy.

We get a sweet scene that highlights their connection, with Harley telling Ivy no one understands her like Ivy does.

Shortly after we get Harley and Ivy being really cute together. This is the sort of adorable dialogue couples often share with each other.

These two may not be actively dating, but at this point, I think it's safe to say they are in an emotional relationship.

And it just keeps on coming. Harley (I'm pretty sure) slaps Ivy's butt and leaps into Ivy's arms when she gets surprised.

There are three moments in the current Harley Quinn run that I think are of the utmost importance. Three scenes that I think give absolute clarity to their relationship. Unsurprisingly, the first one happens in this issue. Surrounded by zombies, and with death imminent, this happens.

This is something we've all seen before, because it is a very common trope. It's the “before we die, I have to tell you that I love you” trope. This is always used for a romantic deceleration of love. This is not Harley telling Ivy she loves her as a friend, or a sister. This is Harley telling Ivy she is in love with her. This removes any ambiguity regarding Harley's feelings for Ivy. This confirms, without a shadow of a doubt, that Harley has romantic feelings for Ivy.

At the end of the issue, Harley asks Ivy to move in again (I'll talk about it later, it's really important). Ivy deflects and they talk about going on vacation together. They are also extremely close together, but physical intimacy is nothing new with these two.

Issue 4 shows us Harley wondering why Ivy won't move in with her.

Again, this is important, and I will talk about it very soon.

Issue 8 gives us the Harley/Ivy Bahamas trip.

Turns out the resort they're at is a nudist resort and, after a brief conversation, they decide to stay. The issue here isn't that they'll see each other naked, as already established, they have no problem with that. It's that they'll be naked in front of Harley's friend, Sy Borgman and his girlfriend Zena.

Ivy, because she's awesome and supportive, asks if Harley misses Mason.

I think this is a great example of Harley's non-monogamy. She admits she does miss him when she's alone, because she still loves him. But also says she doesn't miss him one bit when she's with Ivy, because she loves her. I think this is a pretty cool facet of Harley's character, and something I don't remember ever seeing before.

Ivy, because she's awesome and supportive and amazing, also notices something is going on with Harley. Harley tells her the Joker has sent her some “presents”, including an evaluation sheet which contained intimate details of Harley and Jokers relationship. Harley then tries to have sex with Ivy.

I think this is the third time now. I like it. In a lot of media, wlw relationships are de-sexualised, so I'm always happy when I see a woman express sexual interest in another woman.

Shortly after, Harley does the “love sigh”. You know, for the people reading the comic that hadn't realised Harley loves Ivy.

We get this very romantic scene.

Which is reminiscent of them sleeping on the beach in the original run.

This issue also contains the second, utmost important scene, that gives absolute clarity to their relationship. Harley, once again, mentions Ivy moving in. The subtext rapidly becomes text and we see that Harley isn't asking Ivy to be her room mate, she's asking her to start a relationship together.

You only have to look at the language being used to realise this isn't about being room mates. If it was just about that, if it was just about Ivy paying rent and living in Harley's building, there wouldn't be an issue here. Ivy would come and go, which is exactly what she does now.

Instead we get Ivy reinforcing how much she loves Harley. How she “always want(s) to be with” her, but can't be in a relationship because her mission to save the world is more important than her own wants, which is being with Harley. Ivy also expresses hope that Harley will wait for her. Harley, like anyone that has been in this situation, like anyone that's just been turned down, can't guarantee she'll wait.

This actually confirms what I thought before. In the 2013 – 2016 run, I mentioned they never talk about dating, and I'd assumed Ivy's crusade was the reason. Here we get explicit confirmation that it is. If Ivy didn't have this quest to save the world, Harley and Ivy would be together.

So, absolute, 100% confirmation that these two want to be together. There's no ambiguity here. This scene is about one woman asking another to be with her, and the second woman turning her down but wishing she didn't have to.

Just in case anyone didn't realise what was happening here. The next scene shows us the fallout of Ivy turning Harley down.

Look how upset Harley is. This isn't how someone acts when their best friend can't move in with them. This is how someone acts when they've just had their heart broken.

I'm going to have to split this up. This is already as long as part 1 and I'm only on issue 8! And I thought there was a lot of Harley/Ivy content in the original run! I am beyond happy that in the first 8 issues, any ambiguity regarding the Harley/Ivy relationship has been removed. There's no doubt whatsoever that these two are in love with each over, and the argument that they are just really good friends, has been completely destroyed. I'll be forever thankful to Amanda and Jimmy for building a wlw relationship between two popular DC characters, and to the DC editors for letting them do it.

Thanks for reading

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petirep · 14 days ago

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Here's the backdrop for the new 'Where Are We: Split Rent Crusaders' It was a lot of fun hiding a bunch of easter eggs in the backdrop from my years of experience of living in overcrowded shared apartment spaces.

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residentofthedisc · 5 years ago

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The Drowned Rook Opening - H.M/ResidentoftheDisc

The crowd roared in approval as the body hit the ground. The thud of flesh on hard-packed dirt was lost in the thunder of hands and feet and drunken voices. It bounced from wall to wall in the dim basement, the air so thick it slowed it into overlapping harmonies. No one was breathing their own air, it was shared and rank and damp with sweat, blood, and spit.

In the pit, the downed boxer slowly got to her feet and dragged a hand across her face.

Blood smeared across her mask; her skullcap dampened to the point that the hare embroidered into it was vanishing into anonymous black.

The crowd inhaled.

Then she spat.

Another roar.

As the fight resumed in violent earnest, no one paid much attention as the door leading up and out to the street slowly opened.

The woman who stepped inside was small and about twenty-four years of age. She wore a long mauveine duster-coat, iron-toed boots, and a grey, stumpy top hat jammed low on her head. Her eyes, hair and skin were all varying shades of brown, and she had a large square box-case slung over her right shoulder.

With the ease of someone who knows how to apply elbows to sensitive areas, mauveine duster made her way through the throng until she was right up against the edge of the pit.

Inside, the fight had slowed again, the two boxers circling each other warily. One – the woman who had been floored – was bouncing lightly on her feet, blood dripping down her chin from a split lip. Her opponent, a lumbering man about four inches taller than her and clad in dark green, feinted left. She saw it, ducked under the fist, sinking one-two into his ribs as she passed. He staggered, grunting.

The fighter danced away just in time to avoid another swing. Now she was directly opposite mauveine duster.

They made eye contact.

Mauveine duster lifted the box high enough to be seen over the edge of the pit and jerked her head, plait escaping from the collar of her coat as she did.

The fighter inhaled, nodded, and then had to leap backwards as the man took advantage of her distraction. She hit the ground, rolled, and sprang just as he closed in. Her fist struck the man under the chin and kept going, powered by both her leap and a sudden burst of energy.

The man’s head snapped back. He stumbled backwards, gasping, when the fighter punched him in the throat.

He hit the ground to the chanting of the crowd: “Ace! Ace! Ace-Ace-Ace-Ace!”

He didn’t get back up.

The room went wild.

“You, Starling, are the kiss of death,” a sour-faced bookie poked mauveine duster in the ribs as she emerged from the crowd, “It was an even fight until you showed up.”

Octavia Starling, freelance reporter, shrugged modestly. “What can I say? I have that effect on people.” The cool expression dissolved into a smirk as the bookie reached into his pockets and produced a wad of wrinkled papers. “How much did she place?”

“Seven. Betting high today, was she?”

“Rent’s due,” Starling replied dryly, taking the winnings. She counted them carefully and then rolled them into a bundle and stuffed them into one of the voluminous interior pockets of her coat. “Ace got anything else today?”

“No, not that it matters to you.” The bookie shot a contemptuous glance at the box at Starling’s hip and added, “Anything interesting?”

Starling tapped an ink-stained finger against her lips and contrived to look enigmatic. The crowd rumbled as another pair of boxers entered the ring.

The bookie rolled his eyes. “Guess I’ll read all about it tomorrow then. Which paper?”

“The highest paying,” Starling shouted over the renewed din, “But it’s gonna be one hell of a story!”

“It’s a hell of a story, and unless we hurry up, we are going to lose it,” Starling called. She was leant against the wall of the poky changing rooms which also served as the tavern above’s storeroom, arms crossed and scowling.

Altan Ace, her closest friend and partner-in-crime, poked her head out from behind the curtain, towelling her impressive shock of dyed-ginger hair and replied in a measured tone, “The toffs would throw a fit if I turned up somewhere like Marble Glen still reeking. Besides, you wouldn’t enjoy it much either.” As she ducked back inside, she added, “What is this story, anyway?”

Starling grinned and tipped her hat to an imaginary audience. “It’s good.”

She could sense her friend’s eyeroll from behind the tatty material. “But what is it?”

Savouring every syllable, Starling said, “A phantom thief just robbed the houses of the Minister of Commerce, the Upper’s district mayor, and Mistress Paige herself.”

The curtain rattled as Ace threw it aside, dark eyes wide. “You are kidding me.”

“As true as I’m standing here.”

“Who told you? When was this?” She emerged from the nook, hastily lacing her bodice. In the ring, Ace had been small; beside Starling she was a veritable giant. Her mouth was still an angry red against her tanned face, but the blood had been scrubbed away to an acceptable degree.

Starling grabbed Ace’s overfrock and tossed it at her. “Julia Cook – she ran all the way here. Discovered, what, an hour ago?”

“And what was Julia Cook doing in Marble Glen?”

“Stealing, probably. Girl doesn’t think swimming’s worth it if she’s not in the deep end. Come on, Altan!”

“She’ll have told half the Gateway by now,” Ace muttered as she grabbed her bag containing her boxing costume, “Kiddo’s probably drowning in sestertii at this point.”

“Gave her a whole dennar to keep her mouth shut for twenty minutes so I could fetch you, didn’t I?” Starling grunted as she slung the box over her shoulder. Ace immediately grabbed it off her and held it herself with far more ease. “And I may have – never mind.”

Ace glared at her as they hurried to the exit, “May have done what, Tave?”

Starling just grinned wider and quickened her pace. “If I don’t have to tell you then I’ve done a good job, haven’t I? Let’s cut through Gaius Avenue, hop over the fence –“

“And get shot? No, Musician’s Plaza’s just as close and then we can get through Southdor all properly.”

“You’re no fun, Altantsetseg Ace.”

“Without me, Octavia Bloody Starling, you’d be dead.”

Punching her friend lightly in the arm, Starling winked and replied, “That’s why we work so well.”

Ace rolled her eyes in response.

The bickering lasted until they crossed the brick wall separating New Rookwell’s rich and powerful from the plebeians they despised.

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apenitentialprayer · 5 years ago

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Dante and Virgil Meet Muhammad in the Eighth Circle of Hell (14th Century Genoa Manuscript, Source) Disclaimer: I’m not endorsing the view of Dante Alighieri that Muhammad or any major figure in Islamic history is definitively in Hell. I’m going to tag this with ‘Islamophobia’ for those who may wish to block this post, and while I will tag this with the ‘Islam’ tag for archival reasons, it will be one of the last tags I use - generally speaking, Tumblr only takes into consideration the first five tags a post has when presenting posts.

From Forelock Unto Chin: How Dante’s Inferno Implicitly Takes a Stance on Islamic Sectarian Conflict

In the twenty-eighth canto of Dante’s Inferno, Virgil leads Dante through a section of Hell reserved for “sowers of scandal and schism” (XXVIII.34). It is here that Dante encounters Muhammad, “rent from chin to where one breaketh wind” (XXVIII.24). In this agonizing state, in which his heart and stomach are visible, and his entrails falling out of him, Muhammad walks about for eternity. As Peter Bondanella remarks in his commentary of the Inferno, Dante did not believe that Muhammad was the founder of a rival religion to Christianity. Rather, he is a heresiarch, the creator of a heresy that has torn the Christian world in two (hence his punishment). The status of Muslims in the eyes of Christians seems to have been fluid up until the early modern period; at times, like in the French work The Song of Roland, Muslims are considered infidels, virtually indistinguishable from pagans. By roughly the beginning of the 14th century, by which point the Church was fighting what seemed to be a losing war against heresy on all borders of Christendom, ‘infidel’ groups like Jews and Muslims were increasingly being viewed under the much more subversive category of ‘heretic’. Despite this increasing animosity towards Muslims in the centuries of the first crusades, it would be a mistake to assume that the Christian world was ignorant about Muslims. As Thomas Burman shows in his book on Latin translations of the Qur’an produced between 1140 and 1560, Christian scholars were quite interested in accurately portraying their Muslim rivals. These scholars went as far as to use Muslim exegetical sources in order to better understand the source material of the Qur’an. Combined with the fact that these Latin translations were often placed in the same codices as (admittedly polemical) biographies of Muhammad, it seems that educated Christians had the resources to learn quite a lot about the religion that flourished in the lands across the Mediterranean. It seems that Dante may have been one of those Christians. I say this because of the inclusion of Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law ‘Ali in Hell, in the same section as Muhammad. ‘Ali is the beloved figure of the Shi’i branch of Islam, whose major contention against the Sunni majority is their belief that the first three successors of their prophet had illegitimately usurped that position from ‘Ali. Likewise, ‘Ali is declared to be a sower of discord: “in front of [Muhammad] doth Ali weeping go / Cleft in the face from forelock to chin” (XXVIII.32-33). Whereas Muhammad suffers the division of most of his body for splitting the Christian world, Ali’s split covers a much smaller part of his body, representing how he had further fractured the Muslim Ummah. By doing this, Dante reveals not only an understanding of Islam that far supersedes that of the author of The Song of Roland, but also feels that he’s been provided enough context that he can be comfortable making a value judgment on one of the most heated controversies in Islamic discourse; even as Dante denounces the Muslim community as a schismatic sect of Christianity, he affirms the position of Sunnis concerning the succession to Muhammad.

#Dante Alighieri #Dante's Inferno #Divine Comedy #history #Islamophobia #Islam #Shi'ism #Sunnism #Muhammad #Ali ibn Abi Talib

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caspian-skye · 6 years ago

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Hidden Gem Headcanons

1. Ember knew within the first week that Alexandra was at least bisexual. She wasn’t exactly subtle about staring at Kita, especially on the days they all went swimming together.

2. I’ve mentioned this before, but Alex was in awe of Kita’s muscles. Girl couldn’t stop starin’ at her abs, shoulders, and biceps.

3. Alexandra considered coming out to Raven sometime in Twilight Crusade volume 2. As they both were living in Rusty’s house at that point, they were fairly close. Alexandra also thought Raven was probably the least judgmental out of everyone and the best at keeping a secret.

4. Other than their first conversation that I wrote up a couple months ago, Alexandra and Kita became friends because Alexandra, who felt like an outsider as the new girl in Twilight Crusade, kept walking over to Kita, who always tended to keep to herself in the darkest corner of the room.

5. After a while, Alexandra did a little experiment. She intentionally sat down with everyone before Kita did, to see where Kita would go. Instead of the usual corner, Kita sat next to her.

6. Alexandra became much more open with her sexuality after Twilight Crusade, wearing tiny rainbow pins on her outfits, joining LGBT groups at her college, and things like that.

7. Alexandra changed up her style a bit after Twilight Crusade, wearing sundresses when it was warm outside, and often keeping her hair in a low bun.

8. Kita and Alexandra split rent on an apartment near Alexandra’s school in Mistral. Between her part time job and Kita’s huntress payments, the two managed to live in surprising comfort.

9. Due to her curiosity about the world, Kita LOVES nature documentaries. Alexandra loves cuddling with her and watching them.

10. Though the Shrouded Fox taught her to be proud of her scars, Kita found herself becoming rather self-conscious of them. After all, the fight with White Death left her with a permanently scarred lower lip, and the burn scar on her chest was visible when she wore most of her wardrobe. She brought this up to Alexandra, who assured her she found Kita’s scars genuinely attractive.

11. Sometimes Kita intonates/pronounces words slightly different from a native English speaker. Alexandra thinks this is adorable every single time.

#rwby oc #rwby #hidden gem #shipping #rwby fanfiction #do you guys remember that one mug meme from a while back #like that one with the different ways of holding a mug #because uhhh

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evilmidnightlurker · 3 years ago

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The Wheel of Comics turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving back issues that become collectibles. Collectibles fade to antiques, and even antiques are long forgotten when the Age that gave them birth comes again. In one Age, called the Golden Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wail rose in the alleys of Gotham. The wail was not the origin. There are neither origins or final issues to the turning of the Wheel of Comics. But it was an origin.

Twice and twice shall he be marked, twice to live and twice to die. Once the parent, to set his path. Twice the parent, to name him true. Once the Bat, for remembrance lost. Twice the Bat, for the price he must pay.

"And it shall come to pass that what men made shall be shattered, and the Smile shall lie across the Pattern of the Age, and the Clown shall once more lay his hand upon the world of man. Women shall weep and men quail as the nations of the earth are rent like rotting cloth. Neither shall anything stand nor abide…

Yet one shall be born to face the Smile, born once more as he was born before and shall be born again, time without end. The Batman shall be Reborn, and there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth at his rebirth. In sackcloth and ashes shall he clothe the people, and he shall break the world again by his coming, tearing apart all ties that bind. Like the unfettered night shall he blind us, and burn us, yet shall the Batman Reborn confront the Clown at the Last Battle, and his blood shall give us the Night. Let tears flow, O ye people of the world. Weep for your salvation."

"And it came to pass in those days, as it had come before and would come again, that the Fear lay heavy on the land and weighed down the hearts of men, and the green things failed, and hope died. And men cried out to the Finger, saying, O Light of the Heavens, Light of the World, let the Caped Crusader be born of the alley, according to the Prophecies, as he was in Ages past and will be in Ages to come. Let the Masked Manhunter sing to the land that green things will grow and the valleys give forth lambs. Let the cape of the Dark Knight shelter us from the Fear, and the great wing of justice defend us. Let the Batman ride again on the winds of time."

"And the Glory of the Night did shade upon him. And the Peace of the Night did he give men. Binding sidekicks to him. Making one of many. Yet the shards of hearts did give wounds. And what was once did come again. -in laughter and in venom splitting all in twain. For his peace… -for his peace… …was the peace… …was the peace… …of the batarang. And the Glory of the Night did shade upon him."

#misquotes #batman #robert jordan #the wheel of time

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patriotsnet · 4 years ago

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