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ok sorry I just have to yell about this real quick -
Nightwing (Vol. 2) #139 - The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul, part 6
Dick: "I let you make the choice for yourself...because I knew you'd make the right one."
Dick didn't know shit, lmao!! "Because I knew you'd make the right one" my ass lol.
Let's rewind two minutes shall we:
Dick: "Tim... Listen... There are no easy answers... But you have the right to make the choice for yourself." || Dick (internal narration): "No-win. If I stop him, I don't trust him. If he goes through with it, I shouldn't have trusted him. C'mon, Tim..."
He doesn't know what choice Tim is going to make, whether his grief will overcome him and he'll take the Lazarus water or not, and has in fact been physically fighting Tim this entire issue to stop him by force. But ultimately he knows it's Tim's right to choose for himself, and decides to hope, and have faith in his brother.
And he has that faith rewarded, and reaffirms it afterward, despite the fact that he wasn't sure.
And paralleling that moment of "yes of course I knew you had it":
Red Robin (2009) #12
Dick: "How'd you know? How did you know I'd be there to save you?" || Tim: "You're my brother, Dick. You'll always be there for me."
TIM DIDN'T KNOW SHIIIIIIIIT HGKLJDKFLSD
At least not consciously! Being caught by Dick is certainly not something he planned for, as he seems to be trying to imply.
Again, rewind:
Tim (internal narration): "I did it. I saved the people he loved. I saved everything he worked so hard to build. No compromises. He won't say anything, he never does. But I know. I know that Bruce will be proud of me. Not a bad day." || Tim: (in the midst of pASSING TF OUT) || Dick: (swoops in and catches him)
Tim may not have actually known that Dick would be there. But that catch... A falling Tim being caught by Dick is a motif that occurs over and over and over across the years of their relationship. Why do I feel like there's a part of Tim, faint as he faded out, and much stronger when he woke up, that went, "Oh, it's Dick - of course if it was anyone, I knew it would be Dick"?
After their conflicts and miscommunications in this arc, after Tim sweeping back into town and explaining not a single thing as he races to thwart Ra's, despite Dick's frustrated pleas, after cutting Dick off with a simple, "Batman...trust me," and Dick's responding, "Of course"....
Tim feeling like he knew, even if he didn't know, or plan, or expect. Because that's his brother. And choosing to express that trust, after Dick chose to trust him...
Just. Dick and Tim. Verbally reaffirming their faith in each other, even after in-the-moment doubts. BROTHERS. My emotions.
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Terribly important to me (Nightwing Vol. 2 #139)
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💕 Sparklecare update 💕
VOL 4: Pages 139-141 ✨ Link to update
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The Batman Chronicles #7
Nightwing (Vol. 2) #139
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ARTICLES AND BOOKS (and illustrations!) BY H. GOODSIR
BOOKS
- Anatomical and pathological observations, 1845.
Goodsir, John (1814-1867) Goodsir, Henry Duncan Spens ("Harry") (1819-1847).
Link: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/75603#page/9/mode/1up
Harry is the author of the following three chapters:
N°VI. The testis and its secretion in the decapodous crustaceans (pp 35-40)
N°XII. The mode of reproduction of the lost parts in the crustacea (pp 74-78)
N°XIII. Of the anatomy and development of the cystic entozoa (pp 79-103)
> The last one was read before the York Meeting of the British Association in 1844. I did a little research and found that Goodsir was “secretary” in the zoology and botany section:
(Read more:https://www.ypsyork.org/resources/articles/the-1844-british-association-conference-and-the-first-photographs-taken-in-york/ )
-Cases and observations illustrating the history and pathological relations of two kinds of hydatids, hitherto undescribed, 1844
Goodsir, Harry D. S. , Gairdner, John, Lee Thomas M. , Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Link: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180385#page/3/mode/1up
Microscopial observations (two pages of illustrations at the end of the book, low quality).
-On two new species of leachia, 1841
Goodsir, Henry D. S. Esq.
(from the Edimburgh New philosophical Journal for October 1841)
Link: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/188531#page/1/mode/1up
(One illustration at the end)
ARTICLES
-Description of the genus Cuma, and of two new genera nearly allied to it, 1843
in: The Edinburgh new philosophical journal, vol. 34, pp 119-129
Link: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12565428#page/139/mode/1up
(Illustrations at the end)
-On the specific and generic characters of the araneiform crustacea, 1844
in: The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany and geology, vol. 14, pp 1-4
Link: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2331360#page/14/mode/1up
(One plate at the beginning)
- Description of some animals found amongst the Gulf-weed, february 1845
in: The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany and geology, vol. 15, pp 73-76
Link: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2248314#page/98/mode/1up
(One plate at the beginning)
- Description of some gigantic forms of invertebrate animals from the coast of Scotland, june 1845
in: The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany and geology, vol. 15, pp 377-383
Link: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2248663#page/427/mode/1up
(One plate at the beginning)
-On the development, structure and eoconomy of the acephalocysts of authors; with an account of the natural analogies of the entozoa in general, june 1845
in: The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany and geology, vol. 14, pp 481-484
Link: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22068990#page/495/mode/1up
Abstracted from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, having been read April 1, 1844.
> which I, of course, found:
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol XV
pp. 560-571, three plates
Link: https://archive.org/details/transactionsofro15roya/page/560/mode/2up?view=theater
(His brother was also there!)
-On several new species of Crustaceans allied to Saphirina, 1845
in: The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany and geology, vol. 16, pp 325-327
Link: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22069398#page/339/mode/1up
+Plate XI (at the end)
This last article is also mentionning the Erebus... I'm not crying, you are.
PS: I hope you enjoyed this overview of Goodsir's work, it took me days to gather it all and I'm glad to be able to share it with you all. As I'll soon be in Edinburgh, you can expect to see more Goodsir content! Love <3
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Photos 1-2 - Notozomus ker, female
Photos 3-4 - Notozomus ker, male
Schizomida arachnids (or Shorttailed whipscorpions), identified on iNaturalist as N. ker. using information from Harvey (1992).
For whatever reason there's a lacklustre amount of Australian Schizomida observations on iNaturalist. There's a wide variety of Australian Schizomids out there, with many new species being uncovered fairly recently in Abrams et al. (2019) for example.
Any sort of public record of these arachnids (or just terrestrial arthropods in general) will be very useful, especially since, in general, iNaturalist is lacking observations of Schizomida. Abrams et al. (2019) mentions that there are roughly 350 species of Schizomid out there, but so far, only 23 have been identified on iNaturalist. I feel iNaturalist provides good public records, so the more available on the website, the better.
I'm going to continue flipping over rocks and rotten logs for more Schizomids (and creatures in general), and I implore others to do the same. There's a lot that can be found hiding in the mulch.
*BTW these are not spiders, they're a different Chelicerate entirely.
Sources and further reading:
Harvey, MS 1992 'Schizomida (Chelicerata) of Australia', Invertebrate taxonomy, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 77-129.
Abrams, KM, Huey, JA, Hillyer, MJ, Humphreys, WF, Didham, RK, Harvey, MS 2019, 'Too hot to handle: Cenozoic aridification drives multiple independent incursions of Schizomida (Hubbardiidae) into hypogean environments', Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, vol. 139, p. 106532.
24/10/23 - Schizomida: Notozomus ker
QLD:WET
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I love when comic characters have arcs about accepting that a loved one is never coming back in a universe where people regularly come back from the dead
sdgfhhkjgh comic book death is just so fascinating to me
because on the one hand yeah, it's SUPER FUNNY in the situations where the narrative doesn't at all engage with the idea of resurrection and just treats death the way it exists irl even though we as readers know damn well it doesn't...
but other approaches are what intrigue me so so SO much more
like, I think about Tim & Dick's fight around the Lazarus Pit during The Resurrection of Ra's Al Ghul a lot:
(Nightwing (1996) #139)
Knowing some people get to come back, being painfully aware of it (quite literally in the above example considering the like two times Tim had interacted with Jason at that point were Jason slitting his throat during Hush and then breaking into Titans Tower to beat the shit out of him in his own makeshift Robin costume), and then getting so frustrated about how unfair it can be that some come back and others don't...
The fact that when you're facing a loss, when you see someone you love die—there's this glimmer of hope that maybe they'll get to come back too, but there's no way you can really know...
Then even if they do come back, is it ever gonna be the same? (Again: Look at Jason! I am constantly annoyed by 'oughghgh Lazarus Pit Madness made him like this' fanon, but the trauma of being murdered and feeling unavenged did a fuckin' number on his psyche that's for sure!!)
And then there's this bit with Cassie & Kon I think about a lot too:
(Teen Titans Vol. 3 #88)
Like, even when a person is back in front of you—if you spent time mourning and grieving it doesn't just go away! You know that you can lose them, you did lose them, even though they're back now there's no guarantee they'll stay back.
JUST... AGH!! There is genuinely so much interesting stuff to dig into when you actually acknowledge and engage with how fucking weird of a situation it would be to live in a world like that!
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BATMAN (vol. 1) #139 (April, 1961). Cover by Sheldon Moldoff (ghosting as Bob Kane) and Ira Schnapp.
The first appearance of Bat-Girl (Betty Kane), the niece of Batwoman (Kathy Kane).
Just as Batwoman was introduced as a romantic interest for Batman, Bat-Girl was intended for the same purpose with Robin. She only appeared seven times over the next three years.
Then in 1964 Julius Schwartz took over as Batman's editor and ushered in his "new look" for the Caped Crusader. The new look added the yellow oval around the bat on Batman's costume, and removed the Silver Age silliness that Schwartz felt was cluttering the book. That meant Batwoman, Ace the Bat-Hound, Bat-Mite, and Bat-Girl were jettisoned from the Batman books.
Ironically, another version of Batgirl, Barbara Gordon, was introduced three years later under Schwartz's supervision. She became highly visible when the character was incorporated into the third season of the Batman television series.
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MARZ Rising - Chapter 139: Wait It Out
Setting things up for the Vol.08 finale.
FF Net
Ao3
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Ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله said:
”It is a recommended act for every person who sinned
to perform Wudu
then pray two units of prayer."
[Majmū Fatāwa | Vol. 21/139]
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Wonder Woman, Vol. 2 # 139 by Adam Hughes.
this was Adam’s first Wonder Woman cover.
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Dick once more understands what Bruce saw in Talia. They decide to team up to get to Nanda Parbat and find Bruce + Damian (Nightwing Vol. 2 #139)
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SPIRITUALITY IN ISLAM: PART 23: KHULUQ (GOOD NATURE)
Good nature, in addition to meaning temperament, disposition, and character, is a goal to which a traveler aspires, for it is the most important dimension of creation. In brief, this station means that one is characterized (equipped) with God’s qualities or way of acting. For example, God is All-Forgiving; therefore, one must be forgiving. One who realizes this sacred goal can easily do every good thing or deed.
The words khalq (creation) and khuluq (nature) are derived from the same root word. Khalq relates to the external form or appearance, the visible, material, and experienced dimension of existence; khuluq is concerned with the spiritual dimension, meaning, or content. An individual cannot be judged or known by his or her outer appearance, for one’s real identity lies in one’s character, temperament, and natural disposition. However many different images one may project; one’s true character or temperament eventually will reveal itself. How meaningful are the following words of an Arab poet of the pre-Islamic Age of Ignorance:
If a man has a bad quality, sooner or later it will reveal itself;Let him continue to think that it can remain hidden.
In other words, the outer appearance is deceiving, for one’s natural disposition removes or corrects all deceptions and thereby reveals one’s true nature. Since one may acquire a second nature through education and habituation, moralists divide nature into good and bad. In the present context, we use “nature” to mean “good nature.”
The most correct standard of a good spiritual life, one that Sufism uses to describe or qualify a person, is good nature. One who has taken a few steps forward in good nature may be regarded as advanced in the spiritual life. Although miracles, dazzling stations, and superhuman actions may be acceptable when they issue from good nature, they are worthless if not combined with good nature.
When asked which believer was better on account of his or her belief, the Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings, answered:
The one who is better in conduct or nature. [ Sulayman ibn Ash'as al-Sijistani Abu Dawud, Sunan Abi Dawud, 4 vols. (Beirut, n.d.), 14; Ibn Hanbal, Musnad, 2:250. ]
This is natural, because God praises and consoles His most distinguished servant the Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings, not with His extraordinary favors but with his laudable virtues and praiseworthy qualities, declaring:
You stand on an exalted standard of character (68:4).
His nature was the aim and fruit of his creation. Since the Prophet’s conduct embodied Islam and the Qur'an, when his wife ‘A'isha, may God be pleased with her, was asked about his conduct by Sa'id ibn Hisham, she answered:
Do you not read the Qur'an? His conduct is (the embodiment of) the Qur'an. [ Muslim, “Musafirin,” 139. ]
The verse:
You stand on an exalted standard of character (68:4)
shows that the incomparable conduct of the Prophet, upon him be peace and blessings, was based on the Qur'an. In addition to his outer and inner faculties and senses, and the material and immaterial aspects of his creation and character, the Prophet, upon him be peace and blessings, was endowed with all potentialities needed to be the most forward and greatest representative of human virtue. Developing these potentials to the highest degree possible, he attained the highest degree of human perfection.
Not content with this state, as is declared in the verse:
Surely, in the Messenger of God you have a good example for him who hopes for God and the Last Day, and remembers God much (33:21),
he established the most excellent example for his followers and thereby gradually transformed them into the most virtuous community of all time. With such sayings as:
The most perfect in belief among the believers are the most perfect in conduct [ Abu Dawud, Sunan, 14; Ibn Hanbal, Musnad, 2:250. ];
A man can “cross” with good conduct the “distances” which he cannot with acts of worship and adoration [ Al-Haythami, Majma’ al-Zawa'id, 8:24. ]; and:
The first virtue to be weighed in the Balance (in the other world) is good conduct, [ ‘Ala al-Din ‘Ali al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Kanz al-'Ummal fi Sunan al-Aqwal wa al-Af 'al, 8 vols. (Beirut: 1985), hadith no. 5160. ]
and by employing the perfect, fruitful principles he brought to perfect humanity, he guided his followers to the realms where angels move.
The signs of good nature have been summarized as follows: a person possessing this quality does not hurt anybody by either word or deed, overlooks those who hurt him or her and forgets the evils done, and returns evil with good. The Prophet, upon him be peace and blessings, who is praised with the verse:
You stand on an exalted standard of character (68:4),
is the most excellent example of these virtues. He was not offended by the one who stood before him and told him to be just, [ Al-Bukhari, “Adab,” 95; Muslim, “Zakat,” 142. ] by the one who pulled his robe from the back and hurt him, [ Al-Bukhari, “Khumus,” 19; Muslim, “Zakat,” 142. ] by the one who threw dust on his head and insulted him, or by the one who slandered his innocent and beloved wife 'A'isha. [ Al-Bukhari, “Shahada,” 15; Muslim, “Tawba,” 56. ] In fact, he visited each of these individuals when they became ill [ Abu Dawud, “Jana'iz,” 1. ] and followed their funeral processions. He did so because good nature was a dimension of his blessed existence.
Many people seem to be good natured, mild-mannered, and humanitarian, although good conduct and mildness are no more than affectations. When they experience a little irritation, anger, or harsh treatment, their true nature will be revealed. One who has good nature does not change his or her manners even when in a hellish state, but remains mild and shows no harshness. A heart open to good nature is like a very broad space in which one can bury one’s anger and rage. As for those intolerant and impatient ones who display bad conduct, they are, like Cain, more stupid than the raven, and can find no place to bury their anger, hatred, and ill feelings.
Let us conclude this discussion with the following couplet:
It is by good nature that a man can be perfected;
It is by good nature that the order of the world is maintained.
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