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@kaedni
Hey guys. I mentioned my friend has cancer, a tumor that’s between her lungs and above her heart, and it needs to be operated on. The tumor has begun to touch her trachea and heart. In short, it’s bad. Her and her mom are raising money to pay for the operation and it would mean the world if you guys could signal boost this and donate if you’re able.
More details are on the gofundme itself.
please, please boost this link and donate if you can !!
https://gf.me/u/yq79qs
rip to all of the hours i once had to write
s/o to that one time diana’s asleep in a world that’s perfect for her and it’s just her example and becoming a beacon finally works and people suddenly become nicer and more empathetic to each other in small ways which spills over into small laws and then bigger ones. sharp decrease in crime, etc. “then it spreads like wildfire….without her help”
#literally a line from it is ''' as people seem to spontaneously develop a basic human decency . ''' #literally all she wants is for the world to have basic human decency DO YOU EVER CRY ? #also it kills me that while she tries to provide an example the real dream is this happens bc people begin to change THEMSELVES & the real #dream is when the world doesn't need her at all :'))))
chadwick boseman acted in all of those films, and went to all of those interviews, and showed up to all of those events while battling stage iii and iv colon cancer. for four years...four. he didn't say a word about whatever he may have been struggling through or whatever pain he endured. both mentally and physically. he didn't want anyone to worry and always tried to present his "best" self to us. he was truly such a special person, and an immense influence to so many people, but especially to black youth. today is a tragic day, and his passing is a loss beyond comprehension. he was only 43. rest in peace.
"you have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure." - chadwick boseman (nov. 29, 1977 - aug. 28, 2020)
There are no words. Thank you Chadwick. For everything.
donate smth to cancer research instead of discussing and posting gifsets
cc alliance / duke cancer institute / aacr / fight crc / msk cancer center
here’s a twitter thread of charities related to colon cancer that you can donate to in honor of chadwick boseman (x)
here’s a suicide hotline for if any of you are in need of immediate support (x)
please take care of yourselves and your friends tonight everyone
There's nothing wrong with short men, being able to throw your man over your shoulder like a sack of potatoes is a plus if anything
a random bit of love for @kaedni ❤🌹
you are doing an incredible job as diana, first of all. I just really love how you explore new avenues with her and really aren't afraid to talk about who she is and what she represents with you. You write her with such an ease and grace and it's really clear and holds a deep meaning to what she means to you.
you're also a really strong, incredible person + writer and i just love seeing how you interact with your followers and how you bounce ideas. You're very welcoming and you're such a warm presence and I can see that people love talking to you, which I support wholeheartedly because your passion and compassion speaks volumes about who you are as a writer and how you carry yourself as a person.
even when diana goes back to being ww tho......... she keeps her star sapphire ring just in case.....
i rly have to study but hit that heart for a meme starter* or a star sapphire starter later !
*(meme starter being i go through my meme tag and pick a line i think works and either make it a one liner or one paragraph, depending on insp., time, etc.). priority given to mains & excl. partners
on a happier note, look at star sapphire ww
rebirth : be a star sapphire once more . me :
hcllorhighwater replied to your post “hcllorhighwater replied to your post “#tomorrow i’m going to rant...”
Yes absolutely!!! Diana’s a warrior. She tries peace first always but if she had to go to war, she will. That’s her whole thing. For Bruce or Clark to hold that against her is A BAD LOOK ON THEM. Not on Diana. But this is also something Dinah can understand bc Bruce especially has standards he holds other people to and if they don’t meet them he sees it as a problem. But Dinah will tell Diana that it doesn’t have to be HER problem. If Bruce and Clark can’t accept that she did everything she
Could before resorting to killing then they clearly don’t know her.
hcllorhighwater replied to your post “#tomorrow i’m going to rant about how much i hate post maxwell lord...”
That’s the whole difference between the trinity and the hard traveling heroes really; the trinity can’t ever kill anyone or they’re considered impure, the HTH do their best and if they get outcast for that then ok I guess.
i’m putting this in its own separate post because, uh, you’ve awoken more rant in me i didn’t even know i had.
this is true, especially in a public perception kind of way. but diana also is not wonder woman. or, at least, wonder woman isn’t all of who she is.
wonder woman was a title the people gave her after seeing her in action doing what she basically does. and, just like the title, they’ve kind of ascribed a certain nature of how she should be: like the no killing. she’s above that. the trinity is above that. and so i get why the public would be shocked and why she’d have to step down from the public light: it’s a huge disconnect between public perception of who she is and people being forced to confront that maybe diana isn’t the same as the person they’ve built her up to be. like, i can see that.
and i think that would also have an affect on diana, the backlash, the fickle nature of the people she serves and dealing with that and the desolation of how am i going to achieve my mission now ? because the max.well lor.d thing i think 1. means she feels she can’t engage the public the same way and publish a book and talk about and promote peace when everyone hates her / doesn’t see her as an ideal to strive for and 2. because she also has to wonder, as she often does, if she’s been affected negatively in man’s world and corrupted by it’s harsh realities. would she have acted the same back when she first came to man’s world ? and is it so bad that she now has more realistic views and expectations ?
already that’s a lot for her to digest and think about. and wondering if her goal of promoting peace and the amazon way really is fruitless. it’s a lot.
but her friends, the people who know diana, know (or should know) that she isn’t the pedestal people shove her onto. that she is wonder woman, but that wonder woman is also tied up with a lot of expectations and projections that aren’t indicative of who she is. case in point: she’s a warrior. she’s a trained warrior. people see her as a hero, like superman, but don’t see that she has that edge until times like maxwell lord. but batman and superman know this about her, they know the diana without the ceremony and titles, the diana that doesn’t fit into everything everyone wants her to be.
and the fact that they reject her for stepping over a line that the public deem wonder woman and the jlu shouldn’t overstep. is so awful. again, superman of all people, who is upheld as a god but knows he’s just a kansas boy at heart like he should know the disconnect between public perception and reality. bruce too, but bruce actually wants to be what he projects, whereas diana and clark don’t / they don’t even intend to project, but are just so awe-inspiring and terrifying that they do regardless.
and so her experiencing a break between who she is, a literal warrior, and backlash because the people have assigned her a role that she couldn’t uphold, and dealing with that, you’d think clark would at least be sympathetic and understanding to the fact that it’s an incredibly hard time. that she has a lot to sort through in the aftermath, more than just the killing.
but, again, no nuance is given, no understanding is there. it’s like, because she’s done this “impure” thing, her other friends, who are supposed to know her better than that and deeper than this public image, drop her because she isn’t that and it’s like ???? again, were they ever friends at all then? did they ever really know diana ???
#tomorrow i'm going to rant about how much i hate post maxwell lord era & how everyone dropped her & it hurts .
well it isn’t tomorrow but today is that day. buckle up.
now i know the comics don’t always do a good job of showing that the main three from dc are actually friends and sometimes they retcon it in there, or like in jla in the first issue i believe, they dedicate it to showing how they’re actually friends, their history, etc. and then never really touch on it again. point being: she, superman and batman are friends, even if writers don’t always do a good job of showing that side of things til later on.
now they are more like work friends in that they don’t hang out all of the time and share all the juicy goss, and often have to schedule their hanging out around their jl duties and insane schedules. that’s just how it be. but still, they’re friends.
or they’re supposed to be.
the thing i hate about the maxwell lord incident isn’t even that it happened, or that diana was forced to kill in a no-win situation. it’s that, when push came to shove, bruce and clark didn’t stand by her and, worse, didn’t give her the barest courtesy of hearing her out.
now, okay, yes killing is outside their code. and i understand why the league as an organisation and entity might’ve had to distance itself from her, totally. but clark and bruce literally drop her as a friend, they don’t ask or seem to care how she’s doing in the aftermath of something that could’ve easily been traumatic (not only the killing, but it being broadcast, suddenly being in the spotlight, her worst moment played on tv, and subject to everyone’s critique in a new way, this also happening because batman’s brother eye was taken over and broadcast it, but i digress).
she doesn’t get to have her soul searching in peace or in private, she loses / gives up her title as ww, is literally aimless and gone for that whole year.........and nothing out of bruce or clark, really. bruce does show up in the ww books to help her get her secret identity and get back to work but, again, it’s been a year later. the brunt of everything she’s had to shoulder on her own.
i just. it’s really hard to believe in this unbreakable friendship between the trinity when clark and bruce drop her so quickly ? ? despite the fact that she saved their lives. again, there was literally no other choice: maxwell lord makes it clear that if she ever lets him go, he’ll take control of supes to finish what he started and, in the alternate universe where booster gold saves ted kord and maxwell lord isn’t killed, lord uses a mind-controlled superman to create a police state that’s so bad that ted kord goes back and lets himself be killed.
just think about that. & diana could see it too.
but because they refused to see that / didn’t want to, they left her to hang out to dry. and like. it’s fine, if they had such irreconcilable principles but the thing is.....again, it’s really hard to believe in the power of the three and the power of their friendship when both of her friends in the trinity decide ‘nah’ and ostracise her and only later decide she can join the table again. they weren’t there for the painful process of self healing, they had no interest in her welfare or well being in the aftermath of shouldering this burden. they decided she deserved nothing for everything she did until a year later when she came back into action (and not because of them, but because donna needed her help and there was no way anyone would stop her from helping her sister).
honestly, it just makes me so sad for diana. yes, her moral code deviates from theirs sometimes in what she will do, but 1. she wants the same thing 2. she doesn’t go around killing for the sake of it, this was a very special case and one without another solution; literally it was the trolley problem in a comic and no matter what she chose someone would’ve died 3. the most hilarious thing is they patch things up by reaffirming they all want the same thing, justice......which literally never changed. and they would’ve known that if they bothered to sit down with her sooner. it’s just so lonely to think about.
i just can’t imagine how isolating it must’ve felt to have her two best friends, arguably, cut her out for making the hard choice. and in comics verses, it definitely colours the relationship they have going forward. not that she holds a grudge, but she now has the knowledge that they aren’t really friends through thick & through thin. and that’s their right, but it means she’s less close to & with them for a long while afterward. i don’t want to say forever, but there’s definitely a rift that could stay or maybe could be healed with time but. yikes.
she really deserved better, emotional support and a shoulder from her friends during that time &, as such, i’m accepting applications from new friends who were actually there or tried to be for her in any way during that low year.
u know what makes me cry….. that one van gogh quote about life changing for the better….. “many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. and it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘what do i care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ yes, evil often seems to surpass good. but then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. one morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. and so i must still have hope.” yeah….. Crying….
also to switch gears, i hate the dceu superman film bc of the end. not because clark kills but bc the choice to snap a guy’s neck in a no-win situation is such an ICONIC diana moment and i hate that they took it from her
#also it doesn’t fit superman . #but the gall . #to be fair . i haven’t read many supes comics so maybe he does in one . but it’s literally a HUGE thing for diana . #& they took that away from her . #SHE’S the one of the big three that will kill when push comes to shove . #she doesn’t like it or do it often . & she will always try to find another way . & reach out . #but if all else fails #she will . don’t take that away from her ! #anyways . #mobile . #death ment / #killing ment / #it drives me insane that’s her moment .
