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Narindiel Windblaze: Sin'dorei, former Sunreaver battlemage, Blood Mage and Magistrix. FC: Nina Burns. Taryane Sunstorm-Windblaze: daughter of Narindiel, Blood Knight. FC: Anya Taylor Joy. | Taryane's Libram of Verity (AD-EU-H)

[mirrorsinner]

[elirerahael]

Magister Thalenar ✨

[thunder-stuck]

[sultry-redheads]

[ask-windblaze]

Taryane and Cauric, by Stickerb

[ask-naraenil]

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[andyboops]

"The best thing we can do with power is give it away" - On the leftist critique of superhero narratives as authoritarian power fantasies:

The ongoing "Jason Todd is a cop" debate has reminded me of a brilliant brief image essay by Joey deVilla. So here it is, images first and the full essay text below:

"A common leftist critique of superhero comics is that they are inherently anti-collectivist, being about small groups of individuals who hold all the power, and the wisdom to wield that power. I don’t disagree with this reading. I don’t think it’s inaccurate. Superheroes are their own ruling class, the concept of the übermensch writ large. But it’s a sterile reading. It examines superhero comics as a cold text, and ignores something that I believe in fundamental, especially to superhero storytelling: the way people engage with text. Not what it says, but how it is read. The average comic reader doesn’t fantasize about being a civilian in a world of superheroes, they fantasize about being a superhero. One could charitably chalk this up to a lust for power, except for one fact… The fantasy is almost always the act of helping people. Helping the vulnerable, with no reward promised in return. Being a century into the genre, we’ve seen countless subversions and deconstructions of the story. But at its core, the superhero myth is about using the gifts you’ve been given to enrich the people around you, never asking for payment, never advancing an ulterior motive. We should (and do) spend time nitpicking these fantasies, examining their unintended consequences, their hypocrisies. But it’s worth acknowledging that the most eduring childhood fantasy of the last hundred years hasn’t been to become rich. Superheroes come from every class (don’t let the MCU fool you). The most enduring fantasy is to become powerful enough to take the weak under your own wing. To give, without needing to take. So yes, the superhero myth, as a text, isn’t collectivist. But that’s not why we keep coming back to it. That’s not why children read it. We keep coming back to it to learn one simple lesson… The best thing we can do with power IS GIVE IT AWAY." - Joey deVilla, 2021 https://www.joeydevilla.com/2021/07/04/happy-independence-day-superhero-style/

[freeartzombie]

Meeting The Man: James Baldwin in Paris

(via Mubi)

[twloha]

“Remember what mattered most to you in the dark: not the easy answers. Not the remote platitudes of a dream life. It was simply presence, the hands that took your torn wrists and turned them to the sky, letting them be seen exactly as they were. The best you have to offer others will never be a cure-all method, a one-size-fits-most fix. The best you have to offer will always be yourself.”

— Mary Nikkel, “To the Healing Healers”

[unconditionedconsciousness]

“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés (via aspiritualwarrior)

[rykhafirehand]

A little doodle for a friend on this, the anniversary of her OLD.

[videtur-existentia]

Thank you so much for this artwork of my BK @ask-windblaze

[warcraft-art-unlimited]

Lady Liadrin

[Artist: monori rogue ]

https://www.deviantart.com/monorirogue

[thcrin]

Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I am afraid, and he gives me courage.

[thcrin]

“I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.” —Lauren Oliver, Delirium

[de-morte]

“My wounds have turned into an armour and my heart refuses to take it off no matter how many times you tell me, the war is now over.”

— Channing M

[shadowpriestart]

…Commission: Blood Elf Manor Battle…

Blood elf parents defending their home against Void Elf invaders.

“…my end, it justifies my means… …all I ever do is delay… …my every attempt to evade… …the end of the road…”

-Slipknot/ Before I Forget https://www.instagram.com/p/CM6_z-CDFmM/?igshid=zh3d8nqnujl4

[ask-silverfire]

Thank you @shadowpriestart for the perfect depiction of Rei’ann, her husband, and their little girl in the battle scene that happened in an IC storyline.

[nixalegos]

5. What are the limitations of your magical ability?

I remind myself that I am not the battery. I am the capacitor. By definition I am starved and empty.

I draw power into my form, hunger ignites in my hands and veins. From my soul and my flesh comes my wants. My mind turns those wants into thought. In a heartsbeat, I place those thoughts in words. My flesh cries from threats without. My soul weeps for threats within. In the moment of silence I hone my words into truth. Reality screams, and I silence the sound. Nothing follows.

I cannot see the limit I know is there. I keep pushing, despite the harm it causes. I know I am suffering because it feels so good.

How much of yourself can one give before you no longer have the right to call it yours?

Push back the pain. It is an ugly fact.

Draw more power into yourself. Want more. So long as you have fuel to burn your nuclear heart will keep going.

Scream in joy at the pain you relish.

I cannot see the distance. My fire is too bright to see beyond its blazing heat.

Grasp blindly. Seize and devour the universe raw. Crawl proudly.

Scavenger and King.

I remind myself that I am not the battery. I am the capacitor. By definition I am starved and empty. ((Thank you @jacobdcheshyre and @safrona-shadowsun for the ask!))